Session: Cost of Obesity


Room: Hollister B14
Time: Mon 08:30 AM-10:00 AM

Cost of Obesity

Chair: Irina Grafova (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)


Presentations

  1. The Increasing Cost of Obesity: Changes in the Impact of Physical Activity and Obesity on Medical Expenditures from 1998 to 2006
    Presenter: Jeroen van Meijgaard (University of California, Los Angeles)
    Discussant: Tianyan Hu
  2. Quantifying Obesity in Economic Research
    Presenter: Joanna Parks (University of California, Davis)
    Discussant: Abigail Okrent (University of California, Davis)
  3. Direct Costs Associated with Overweight, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome Among Health Plan Members
    Presenter: Kirsten Long (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota)
    Discussant: Timothy Classen

Event Information

The 3rd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists took place at Cornell University.


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