title: [The economic implications of interventions to prevent obesity].
abstract: In spite of methodological, organizational and economical difficulties, it is necessary to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of obesity prevention policies and the resources that society allocates to fighting this epidemic. This paper reviews the economic reasoning behind these policies and presents a review of the scientific literature on the economic burden of disease and on the cost-effectiveness of individual and community interventions to prevent obesity.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. arcaro@dnc.ulgc.es
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Caro
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: González López-Valcárcel
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011634:Public Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors