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Social costs of obesity in the Czech Republic
Tuzarová, Kateřina ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Sunega, Petr (referee)
Prevalence of obesity worldwide has increased rapidly in the last decade. In the Czech Republic, a similar trend has been observed. Every fifth adult has a problem with obesity, a fact which puts the Czech Republic among the countries with the highest obesity rates in European and global context. Obesity is a risk factor leading to a number of serious diseases. The growing prevalence of obesity is directly causing higher health care spending and also incurs costs indirectly, in terms of productivity losses. Present thesis is the first study in the Czech Republic, providing an estimate of both direct and indirect costs related to the obesity. Using a cost-of-illness method, the overall social costs of obesity in the Czech Republic for 2013 were estimated at 12.1 billion CZK which corresponds to 0.3% of GDP in the given year. Direct costs accounted for two thirds of this amount. The highest costs, attributable to the obesity, were inflicted by back pain diseases, arthritis, ischemic heart diseases and type 2 diabetes.
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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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