Economic Evaluation of Obesity Interventions

Preventing Childhood Obesity: Evidence Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 167-174

  Moodie, Marj ^a   Carter, Rob ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessing Cost Effectiveness in obesity (ACE obesity) project; Economists addressing resource scarcity; Interventions evaluation and obesity prevention; Obesity cost burden description and projection; Obesity interventions economic evaluation; Quality economic evaluations, challenges

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052235419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318517.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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