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Cost Of Obesity | |
File name | Cost Of Obesity |
File Description | Statistics can be powerful and dangerous tools. There are two basic ways in which they are frequently misused, which can help explain both why the epidemic increase in obesity has been largely ignored, and how this serious health risk might be reduced. What we count and measure signifies what we value, which in turn determines the policy agenda and policy priorities. No matter how important we proclaim something to be, if we assign it no value in our measures of progress, it will not get attention in the policy arena. It is like telling students that a term paper is extremely important and the most valuable learning experience of the semester, and that it is worth 2% of the final grade. |
Category Name | Public Health |
Subject Name | Obesity and Public Health |
Module Name | Obesity |
Micro Category Name | Direct medical cost |
Level | Masters |
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