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Economic Impact of Increasing Incidency of Obesity
Hodycová, Tereza ; Lešetický, Ondřej (advisor) ; Střítecký, Rudolf (referee)
Incidence and prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide. According to current trends, there is a high risk of pandemy of obesity in 21. century. WHO announced 1 bilion of obese people worldwide. In the majority of countries in Europe the prevalence of obesity is about 10-25%. Obesity has very negative impact on the public health, quality of life but also very high economic burden. The economic cost on obesity achieve 5% of teh whole healthcare cost in EU and 12% in the USA. Assumption of the direct and indirect cost was 32,8 bilion Euros in EU. It comes up to 0,3% of HDP. The aim of my analysis is to estimate direct cost on the healthcare in the direct connection with obesity in Czech Republic.

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