Annual productivity losses due to co-morbidities of overweight and obesity in the Republic of Ireland

Autor:	L Sharp, Sweeney, Karen Kearns, Treasa McVeigh, V O’Dwyer, Frank Kee, Ivan J. Perry, A Callan, Edel Doherty, Kevin P Balanda, Ciaran O'Neill, Anne Dee, John Hughes, Anthony Staines
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	business.industry Total cost Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Welfare Overweight medicine.disease The Republic Obesity Work (electrical) Environmental health Medicine Co morbidity medicine.symptom business Productivity
Zdroj:	European Journal of Public Health. 23
ISSN:	1464-360X 1101-1262
Popis:	Background In Europe, overweight and obesity have increased rapidly. Concern about this led to a collaborative study (2011-2012) to estimate the total costs of overweight/obesity to the island of Ireland. A component of that work involved analysis, for the Republic of Ireland (ROI), of the impact of claims for sickness benefit attributable to overweight or obesity, on absence from work, and the associated productivity losses, and on the social welfare bill. Methods Analysis was performed on a dataset from the ROI’s Department …
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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