Oecd Health Statistics 2019 Obesity

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Oecd health statistics 2019 obesity. Health at a glance publication 2019 obesity and the economics of prevention publication 2010 source database. Non medical determinants of health database oecd health statistics. The obesity epidemic places a heavy burden on individuals society and the economy. The online database oecd health statistics 2020 has been released on july 1st.

Overweight includes both pre obesity and obesity. Access the pdf versions or web books for those publications and the full data sets through statlinks free of charge. Further indicators related to health risks. This series of publications analyses the organisation and performance of health systems and factors explaining performance variations.

Organisation for economic co operation and development oecd. The obesity epidemic has spread further in the past five years. Europe 2018 state of health in the eu cycle and health at a glance. Data come from national sources in a few instances these may differ from data shown in the oecd 2019 report on obesity which uses data from the who global health observatory with age standardised estimates and other methodological differences.

The heavy burden of obesity the economics of prevention october 2019. Data and research on health including biotechnology cancer health care health spending health insurance fitness dementia disability obesity smoking genetics and mortality. This epidemic has far reaching consequences for individuals society and the economy. Oecd indicators health at a glance.

Over half the population in oecd countries is overweight with nearly 1 in 4 people considered obese. Obesity unhealthy diet and physical inactivity the majority of the population and one in five children are overweight or obese in the oecd area. Data and research on health including biotechnology cancer health care health spending health insurance fitness dementia disability obesity smoking genetics and mortality today more than one in two adults and nearly one in six children are overweight or obese in the oecd area. Data and research on health including biotechnology cancer health care health spending health insurance fitness dementia disability obesity smoking genetics and mortality almost one in four people in oecd countries is currently obese.

The obesity epidemic has spread further in the past five years but rates have been increasing at a slower pace than before. In the next 30 years this will cause 220 million cases of non communicable diseases ncds in oecd countries. The oecd health database offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across oecd countries. Data warehouse database oecd stat.

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