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 …

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

Background: The rising prevalence of obesity represents an important public health issue.
An assessment of its costs may be useful in providing recommendations for policy and …

Potential obesity-related policy approaches have recently been receiving more attention.
Although some have been implemented and others only proposed, few have been formally …

The World Health Organization estimates that around one billion people throughout the
world are overweight and that over 300 million of these are obese and if current trends …

Context Policy and environmental changes to support and encourage individual-level
nutrition and physical activity behavior are underway in many parts of the US and around the …

Although the policy debate is only slowly moving away from the focus on individual-level
psychological and social factors, the research community has largely recognized that …

Although the argument that obesity is a medical and public health problem has won
credence in public health circles, that it is a failure of social, economic or public policy has …

The obesity epidemic and the growing debate about what, if any, public health policy should
be adopted is the subject of endless debates within the media and in governments around …

In the last decade, the prevalence of obesity has increased significantly in populations
worldwide. A less dramatic, but equally important increase has been seen in our knowledge …