McGuire, Alistair 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5367-9841 and Hughes, David
(1997)
A review of the economic analysis of obesity.
British Medical Bulletin, 53 (2).
pp. 253-263.
ISSN 0007-1420
Abstract
There are indications that the treatment costs arising from obesity are significant. However, the cost-of-illness studies undertaken to date also highlight two other important points. First, the cost of treatment is sensitive to the body mass index (BMI) cut-off used. Given that there is no definitive definition of obesity as based on BMI, a range of costs reflecting differing BMI cut-offs may be more appropriate than the use of a single figure. Second, the costs are, not surprisingly, also sensitive to the defined associated diseases. Again there is little agreement on these and also little information on the relative risks of attributable diseases arising from obesity. The calculations of the cost-of-illness arising from the treatment of obesity, and its associated conditions must, therefore, remain indicative rather than authoritative.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 1997 British Council |
| Divisions: | Social Policy LSE Health |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| JEL classification: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Suicide, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2009 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:12 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/22469 |
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