Healthy People and Healthy Neighborhoods: An Empirical Model of Weight Status for Young Adults in the US
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In recent years there has been an increased interest among economists, especially in the field of health economics, in health outcomes associated with weight status of the individuals. This is not surprising since obesity has been strongly related in the medical and public health literature to chronic diseases like diabetes type II, heart disease, and hypertension. In addition, the prevalence of obesity has raisen to such a degree in developed countries that is now considered an epidemic. For the United States, in 2008 the prevalence rate of obesity was 32.2% among adult men and 35.5% among adult women (Flegal et al, 2010). This implies a dramatic increase in the last three decades compared with the
prevalence of 12.7% for men and 17% for women measured in the late 1970s (Eid et al 2008).
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Morales, Leonardo F.
2011
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