The economics of obesity
By: edited by Kristian Bolin, John Cawley.
Contributors: Bolin, Kristian.; Cawley, John H.
Series: Advances in health economics and health services research -- v. 17
Publisher: Elsevier JAI
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780762314065
Subjects: Obesity -- Mathematical models.; Overweight persons -- Employment.; Health Care Costs.; Obesity -- economics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.]; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner -- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo -- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner -- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo -- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity -- Jaune Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner -- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo -- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity -- Jaune Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque -- Petter Lundborg ... [et al.]; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner -- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo -- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity -- Jaune Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque -- Petter Lundborg ... [et al.] -- Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber -- Part IV: Other costs and consequences of obesity; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner -- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo -- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity -- Jaune Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque -- Petter Lundborg ... [et al.] -- Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber -- Part IV: Other costs and consequences of obesity -- Jay Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours -- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving -- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.] -- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb -- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu -- Inas Rashad -- Part II: Treatments for obesity -- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner -- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo -- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity -- Jaune Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque -- Petter Lundborg ... [et al.] -- Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber -- Part IV: Other costs and consequences of obesity -- Jay Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood -- Nana Bro Folmann ... [et al.]; title: Part I: Predicting obesity and related behaviours-- Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving-- Lisa M. Powell ... [et al.]-- Steven M. Suranovic and Robert S. Goldfarb-- Robert Kaestner and Xin Xu-- Inas Rashad-- Part II: Treatments for obesity-- William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner-- John Cawley and John A. Rizzo-- Part III: Labor market impacts of obesity-- Jaune Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque-- Petter Lundborg ... [et al.]-- Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber-- Part IV: Other costs and consequences of obesity-- Jay Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood-- Nana Bro Folmann ... [et al.]-- William MacMinn, James McIntosh and Caroline Yung.