The direct and indirect costs of both overweight and obesity: a systematic review

Dee, Anne; Kearns, Karen; O’Neill, Ciarán; Sharp, Linda; Staines, Anthony; O’Dwyer, V; Fitzgerald, Sarah; J. Perry, Ivan

doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-242

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The direct and indirect costs of both overweight and obesity: a systematic review

Published in BMC Research Notes • Apr 16, 2014

Authors:

Anne Dee

Karen Kearns

Ciarán O’Neill

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The rising prevalence of overweight and obesity places a financial burden on health services and on the wider economy. Health service and societal costs of overweight and obesity are typically estimated by top-down approaches which derive population attributable fractions for a range of ...

Subject

Overweight

Indirect costs

Obesity

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