Cost-effective, sustainable strategies are urgently required to curb the global obesity
epidemic. To date, fiscal policies such as taxes and subsidies have been driven largely by …

Obesity prevention provides a major opportunity to improve population health. As health
improvements usually require additional and scarce resources, novel health technologies …

This paper elucidates the challenges surrounding the economics of some popular obesity-
related policy proposals. Solid economic justifications for anti-obesity policies are often …

This chapter summarizes the literature on the relationship between obesity and medical
spending, including a discussion of both per capita and aggregate annual and lifetime …

The estimated $117-billion societal cost of overweight and obesity is composed of $61
billion in direct costs and $56 billion in indirect costs. Direct costs include medical …

Everyone working in the obesity area wants to know the cost of obesity. They want a magic
number, and feel it must be a high dollar cost, which can be used in advocacy with …

Why should economists work in the field of obesity prevention? What wisdom can they bring
to bear on the issue that could make a difference to the prevalence and consequences of …

Background Comprehensive, multi-level approaches are required to address obesity. One
important target for intervention is the economic domain. The purpose of this study was to …

We examined the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a junk food tax as an
intervention to counter increasing obesity in North America. Small excise taxes are likely to …

The discipline of economics plays a varied role in informing the understanding of the
problem of obesity and the impact of different interventions aimed at addressing it. This …