Preventing Obesity in the USA: Impact on Health Service Utilization and Costs

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 765-776

  Cecchini, Michele ^a,b   Sassi, Franco ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DRUG LABELING; DRUG MARKETING; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LONG TERM CARE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVENTION STUDY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; OBESITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933671170     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-015-0301-z     Document Type: Article

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