increase in overweight people and obesity. The latest available data indicated that over 40.9% of adults in the region are … overweight compared to 34.6% in 1993. It is well documented that obesity and overweight are one of the main risk factors of non … caused by the obesity endemic for the region. This paper fills this gap by providing a first cost estimate for 42 Asia and …

Increasing prevalence of obesity is a pressing public health issue in the Czech Republic as well as world …. Given that obesity is a chronic disease which is associated with several serious comorbidities, it generates large social … costs. The main aim of this study was to estimate both direct and indirect costs of obesity in the Czech Republic. Social …

Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years - see, for … example, DHSC (2020) and Dimbleby (2021). Understanding the costs associated with obesity is important for informing policy …. Bell and Deyes (2022) have recently produced what are, to date, the most detailed estimates of the costs of adult obesity …

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …