The burden of overweight and obesity on long-term care and medicaid financing

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 658-663

  Yang, Zhou ^a   Zhang, Ning ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

long term care; Medicaid; obesity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAID; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAID; NURSING HOMES; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902490263     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000154     Document Type: Article

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