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The Value of Medical and Pharmaceutical Interventions for Reducing Obesity

This paper attempts to quantify the social, private, and public-finance values of reducing obesity through pharmaceutical and medical interventions. We find that the total social value of bariatric surgery is large for treated patients, with incremental social cost-effectiveness ratios typically und...

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Main Authors: Michaud, Pierre-Carl, Goldman, Dana, Lakdawalla, Darius, Zheng, Yuhui, Gailey, Adam H.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600147/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22705389
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.04.006
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