Year: 2011
Type: book
Abstract: Summarizes key RAND studies on the causes of obesity, its economic and health consequences, and potential strategies for prevention, including work on health care costs, junk food, food deserts, school meals, and proximity of parks.
Source: RAND Corporation eBooks
DOI: 10.7249/rb9508
Authors: Roland Sturm, Deborah Cohen, Tatiana Andreyeva, Jeanne Ringel, Ricky Bluthenthal, Marielena Lara, Marylou Gilbert, Scott Gee, Ashlesha Datar, Nancy Nicosia, D. Do, Tamara Dubowitz, Chloe Bird, Nicole Lurie, Jose Escarce, Brian Finch, Marsha Dowda, Thomas McKenzie, Molly Scott, Kelly Evenson, Ariane Bedimo-Rung, Carolyn Voorhees, Maria Almeida, Melonie Heron, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Lauren Hale, Meenakshi Fernandes, Ying-Ying Goh, Dana Goldman, Bessie Sipple-Asher, Darius Lakdawalla, J. Griggs, Eva Culakova, Melony Sorbero, Michelle van Ryn, Marek Poniewierski, Debra Wolff, Jeffrey Crawford, David Dale, G. Lyman, Erin Gillespie, David Hanauer, Michael Sabel, Sanae Inagami, Arleen Brown, Steven Asch, Melinda Maggard Gibbons, Irina Yermilov, Margaret Maglione, Sydne Newberry, Marika Booth, Lara Hilton, Heena Santry, Paul Hutchinson, Nicholas Bodor, Chris Swalm, Thomas Farley, Janet Rice, John Elder, Diane Catellier, J. Ashwood, Jamie Chriqui, Adrian Overton, Frank Chaloupka, Marjorie Pearson, Donald Rose, Shin-Yi Wu, Yuyan Shi, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Yuhui Zheng, Adam Gailey, Igor Vaynman, Emily Herrmann, Laura Weiser, Jennifer Hawes-Dawson, Christina Jagielski, Kimberly Uyeda, Laura Bogart, Josephina Olarita-Dhungana, Gery Ryan, Mark Schuster, John Morton, E. Livingston, Paul Shekelle, Lisa Powell
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2892286034