Session: Impact of Obesity

Room: Ball Room
Time: Thu 10:15 AM-11:30 AM

Impact of Obesity

Chair: Heather Brown

Presentations

  1. Does physical appearance matter? Overweight and labor market discrimination
    Presenter: Giovanna Labartino (Bocconi University)
  2. Hospital consumption and costs in a cohort of obese patients from Northern Italy
    Presenter: Eva Pagano (University of Turin)
  3. Obese and Absent? Exploring the Relationship between Obesity and Sickness Absence in Sweden
    Presenter: Margareta Dackehag (Lund University)
  4. Future health care costs of obesity: Results from the KORA case cohort study, 1995-2005
    Presenter: Silke Wolfenstetter (Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health )

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