Overview
- Explores behavioural patterns relevant to this important global issue, which is of high interest to a broad audience
- Digestible read that brings together a multitude of topics on obesity previously not discussed in one book
- Provides a unique framework for justifications for government food policy interventions
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents(8 chapters)
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Chair and Professor of Economics, DeSales University, Center Valley, USA
Tahereh Alavi Hojjat
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New York, USA
Rata Hojjat
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economics of Obesity
Book Subtitle: Poverty, Income Inequality and Health
Authors: Tahereh Alavi Hojjat, Rata Hojjat
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2911-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2911-0Published: 22 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 84
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality