The motivation for this project is to build an R package that outputs necessary data frames relevant to obesity costs, where the clients could easily manipulate the output using difference parameters, e.g. relative risks for each illnesses. This is in conjunction with another research project that estimated the state-level economic costs of obesity in the […]
B25: Modeling the Economic Cost of Obesity Risk and its Impact on Excess Mortality and Morbidity in the United States
Understanding the economic cost of obesity risk represents an important aspect of prevention and management of the obesity pandemic. Thus, assessing the economic impact of obesity on society is increasingly important. Prior studies about obesity-related costs in the United States focused more on the national-level direct and indirect costs that evolved over a short time […]