The medical care costs of obesity: an instrumental variables approach.

By J. Cawley, Chad D Meyerhoefer. Journal of Health Economics, 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Statistics and Probability

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Fish for Health: Improved Nutritional Quality of Cultured Fish for Human Consumption (2020, background): “…humanity in terms of lives lost, CONTACT Albert G. J. Tacon agjtacon@aquahana.com Aquahana LLC, Kailua, HI 96734, USA 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC the economic cost to society of dealing with these ailments is considerable (Cawley and Meyerhoefer 2012; Finkelstein et al. 2014; Xu et al. 2014).”
Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation (2012, neutral): “6 percent of annual health care spending in the United States (Cawley and Meyerhoefer, 2011).”
The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture (2015, background): “Extrapolating these costs to the national level, authors estimate some $US190 billion per year of healthcare spending, approximately 21 % of US healthcare expenditures, is due to treating obesity and obesity-related conditions [125].”
Instrumental Variables Estimation With Some Invalid Instruments and its Application to Mendelian Randomization (2014, positive): “However, a fundamental difficulty with these studies is that the outcome, HRQL, encompasses various factors about the individual, making it difficult to control for all possible confounders that may affect obesity and HRQL (Cawley and Meyerhoefer 2012).”
The Economic Costs of Type 2 Diabetes: A Global Systematic Review (2015, background): “Endogeneity in COI studies has recently been addressed for the estimation of healthcare costs of obesity, suggesting that direct costs would have been underestimated, had the study not accounted for endogeneity [116].”
The mobilize center: an NIH big data to knowledge center to advance human movement research and improve mobility (2015, background): “Obesity, which reduces mobility and contributes to conditions like cardiovascular disease, results in an estimated 20% of the US national health expenditures.(6) Taken together, the consequences of limited mobility are substantial and severe.”
You Tweet What You Eat: Studying Food Consumption Through Twitter (2014, background): “…disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and even cancer have all been linked to weight gain 1 and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates some 35.7% of adults in US are obese 2 , with medical care and other expenses associated with obesity costing up to $ 190 billion a year [5].”
Economic Burden of Obesity: A Systematic Literature Review (2017, methodology): “When comparing the results of two studies in the USA [36,39] estimating annual direct costs per capita, the costs increased from US $2741 in 2005 to US $6899 in 2011.”