Influence of obesity on health care costs and absenteeism among employees of a mining company;Influencia de la obesidad en los costos en salud y en el ausentismo laboral de causa médica en una cohorte de trabajadores

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-344

  Zárate, Aldo ^a   Crestto, Marco ^c   Maiz, Alberto ^a   Ravest, Gonzalo ^c   Pino, María Inés ^c   Valdivia, Gonzalo ^b   Moreno, Manuel ^a   Villarroel, Luis ^b  

^a Escuela de Medicina   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Health expenditures; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MORBID OBESITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67651158938     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: 07176163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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