Will China’s Nutrition Transition Overwhelm Its Health Care System and Slow Economic Growth?
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Rapid social and economic change is transforming China, with enormous implications for its population and economy. More than a fifth of China's adult population is overweight, related to changing dietary and physical activity patterns. Overweight and poor diets are becoming a greater burden for the poor than for the rich, with subsequent large increases in hypertension, stroke, and adult-onset diabetes. The related economic costs represent 4-8 percent of the economy. Public investments are needed to head off a huge increase in the morbidity, disability, absenteeism, and medical care costs linked with this nutritional shift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
JOUR
Popkin, Barry M.
2008
Health Affairs
27
4
1064-76
10.1377/hlthaff.27.4.1064
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