Relative weight-related costs of healthcare use by children--Results from the two German birth cohorts, GINI-plus and LISA-plus

Ariane Breitfelder, Christina M. Wenig, Silke B. Wolfenstetter, Peter Rzehak, Petra Menn, Juergen John, Reiner Leidl, Carl Peter Bauer, Sibylle Koletzko, Stefan Röder, Olf Herbarth, Andrea von Berg, Dietrich Berdel, Ursula Krämer, Beate Schaaf, H.-Erich Wichmann and Joachim Heinrich

Economics & Human Biology, 2011, vol. 9, issue 3, 302-315

Abstract: Obesity among children and adolescents is a growing public health burden. According to a national reference among German children and adolescents aged 3-17 years, 15% are overweight (including obese) and 6.3% are obese. This study aims to assess the economic burden associated with overweight and obesity in children based on a cross-sectional survey from two birth cohort studies: the GINI-plus - German Infant Nutritional Intervention plus Non-Intervention study (3287 respondents aged 9 to

Keywords: Obesity; Overweight; Children; Cost-of-illness; Healthcare; utilisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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