Economic costs of obesity and the case for government intervention

McCormick, Brittany A; Stone, I.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-789x.2007.00337.x

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“…Moreover, these estimates generally rely on contemporaneous comparisons of health care consumption and other costs, not costs over the lifetime of individuals. This has the predictable effect of exaggerating the social costs associated with smoking and obesity, since decreased life expectancy translates into reduced social spending on elderly benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security [12,13]. A recent Dutch study estimating the lifetime medical costs for different cohorts of individuals-an obese cohort, a smoker cohort, and a "healthy" cohort (nonsmokers with body mass index between 18.5 and 25)-found that lifetime costs were 12 percent higher among the healthy individuals than among the obese and 27 percent higher than among smokers [14].…”

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Trans Fats, the Rational Consumer, and the Role of Government

Votruba

2010

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Trans Fats, the Rational Consumer, and the Role of Government

Votruba

2010

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…While evidence regarding the effectiveness of obesity prevention initiatives is equivocal (4) , there have been calls from international organisations (5) , professional associations (6) , academic experts (7,8) and the community (9) for governments to take decisive action to mitigate the adverse impacts of obesity. Indeed, across the globe, governments have developed policy, set obesity prevalence targets (10) and are implementing obesity prevention initiatives (11) .…”

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Strengthening the rigour of population-wide, community-based obesity prevention evaluations

Wolfenden

Wiggers

2012

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The aim of the present study was to review the methodological literature regarding evaluation methods for complex public health interventions broadly and, based on such methods, to critically reflect on the evaluation of contemporary community-based obesity prevention programmes. Design: A systematic review of the methods and community-based literature was performed by one reviewer. Results: The review identified that there is considerable scope to improve the rigour of community-based obesity prevention programmes through: prospective trial registration; the use of more rigorous research designs, particularly where routine databases including an objective measure of adiposity are available; implementing strategies to quantify and reduce the risk of selective non-participation bias; the development and use of validated instruments to assess intervention impacts; reporting of intervention process and context information; and more comprehensive analyses of trial outcomes. Conclusions: To maximise the quality and utility of community-based obesity prevention evaluations, programme implementers and evaluators need to carefully examine the strengths and pitfalls of evaluation decisions and seek to maximise evaluation rigour in the context of political, resource and practical constraints.

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“…This may be because individuals have imperfect information about the risk and consequences of their dietary behaviour. Such information may include the calorie content of different forms of food items or the link between diet and weight gain (McCormick and Stone 2007). In some societies, food consumption is a marker of social status, an act of pleasure and convenience (DOH 2003), which do not necessarily relate to understanding nutrient values of a particular diet.…”

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Diet, risk of obesity and socioeconomic circumstances of individuals in the UK: A seemingly unrelated approach

Olajide

Ludbrook

2012

Nordic J Health Eco

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Understanding the link between diet, risk of obesity and the underlying socioeconomic circumstances of the individual is useful for health promotion and improvement interventions. In this study, we examine the socioeconomic factors that jointly affect food consumption choices and risk of obesity. We analyse the National Dietary and Nutrition Survey (2000/01) of adults aged 19-64 years living in private households in the UK, using a health production framework. The information on the complete food history on individuals in the previous week are used to create eight common food groups. The seemingly unrelated regression method is used to estimate a system of linear risk of obesity (as measured by Body Mass Index) and eight diet equations with error terms that are correlated across equations for a given individual, but are uncorrelated across individuals. Our findings indicate that the socioeconomic factors (e.g. income and education) associated with sources of healthy eating differ. While increasing household purchasing power may be more effective for increasing consumption of healthier foods such as fruit and vegetables, more knowledge and information about healthy eating may be more effective for cutting down on consumption of less healthy foods (e.g. preserves and savoury foods). An understanding of these different healthy eating contexts is essential for the development of effective targeted food based policies aimed at reducing the risk of obesity.

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Economic costs of obesity and the case for government intervention

Cited by 113 publications

References 5 publications

Trans Fats, the Rational Consumer, and the Role of Government

Trans Fats, the Rational Consumer, and the Role of Government

Strengthening the rigour of population-wide, community-based obesity prevention evaluations

Diet, risk of obesity and socioeconomic circumstances of individuals in the UK: A seemingly unrelated approach

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