… Obesity in Europe is rising. This paper investigates the economic rationales for public intervention
to control obesity… background is related to obesity among young European adults. This …

… However, to rein in rising obesity rates successfully, it is first necessary to understand the …
From an economic perspective, the best case for government intervention concerns obesity …

… are more likely to be obese, the body mass index has been rising in every education group.
The … weight rise; other countries have also seen rising obesity rates. Figure 2 shows obesity …

… factors in the rise of childhood overweight and obesity … is the scope for policy solutions to
reduce childhood obesity? … In this chapter we examine obesity in an economic framework to …

… Introduction The recent rise in obesity has generated enormous popular interest and
policy concern in developed countries where it is rapidly becoming one of the major health …

… While these causal factors are paramount to rising obesity prevalence, some limitations
are acknowledged to justify the need for a broader understanding of contextual factors that …

… economic factors during the obesity epidemic and dispels some widely held, but incorrect,
beliefs. Rising obesity … From a policy perspective, it is less obvious what economic instruments …

… economic variables collectively explain 37% of the rise in BMI, 43% of the rise in obesity, and
59% of the rise in class II/III obesity… rise in the 90th percentile of BMI explained by economic …

… of public policy in reducing the rise in obesity. First, it … to obesity relies on the existence of
market failures; this is a key distinction between the public health and economic perspective. …

… Some writers have attempted to expand this theory into a general explanation of the rise
in obesity, although it clearly has limited capacity to explain the obesity trends among the …