Obesity : Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge
Obesity is a global ticking time-bomb with huge potential negative economic and health impacts, especially for the poor. As of 2016, an estimated 44 percent of adults (more than 2 billion) worldwide are overweight/obese, and over 70 percent of them live in low- or middle-income countries, dispelling...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/205611580359927371/Obesity-Health-and-Economic-Consequences-of-an-Impending-Global-Challenge http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32383 |