JHSPH OpenCourseWare, Obesity Economics

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD 21205,

Description: This course introduces students to the economic approach to evaluating obesity. It focuses on attributable health care expenditures, quality adjusted life years, productivity changes, consumer sovereignty, and the incentives and regulations that can be used to change individual adult, parent, and child behavior.