1 option
Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity / Tomas Philipson, Richard Posner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Philipson, Tomas.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14010.
- NBER working paper series no. w14010
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.
- Summary:
- The world-wide and ongoing rise in obesity has generated enormous popular interest and policy concern in developing countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations. As a consequence, there has been a rapidly growing field of economic analysis of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. This paper discusses some of the central themes of this decade long research program, aiming at synthesizing the different strands of the literature, and to point to future research that seems particularly productive.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2008.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.