Obesity-related health care costs and the productivity of the work of the United States and Canada in the 300 billion dollar a year, a new study reveals a loss.
The US accounts for the money, the proportion of 270 billion dollar lion. Canada uses 30 billion dollars
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the 2005 1.6 billion adults, ages 15 and older, were overweight and obese adults of at least 400 million, especially in the industrialised countries.
SOA (the Society of Actuaries) research done by the installation near the 300 billion dollar figure: the United States and Canada to spend $ 127 billion related to obesity and health; 49 billion dollar loss due to the higher employee productivity, in the event of death; 43 billion dollar loss in productivity due to the injury to the employee; $ 72 billion in total and employee injury.
Its conclusions of June 2009 SOA translated between January 1980 and published research. The spokesman said the growing obesity SOA pace is "extraordinary" economic costs, and calls on employers and insurance companies actively dividing healthy decision-making.
Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) (BMI) of 30 and not more than 30 are considered to be for the prevention of overweight.
In addition, SOA runs on the online survey of 1,000 adults, find that 83% of the participants adopt a healthy lifestyle program, if given the incentives for their health insurance.
In the United States of America, obesity State varies depending on the State. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pegs Mississippi our fattest State; 34.4% of its population is obese. Colorado is one of the slimmest 18,6%.
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