Obesity in America: A Market Failure?

Since the late 1980s, obesity in America has been a looming public health concern. Recently, medical researchers found that, for the 2011-12 period, 35.3 percent of U.S. adults (aged 20 or older), 20.5 percent of teenagers (ages 12-19), 17.7 percent of children (ages 6-11), and 8.4 percent of young...

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Main Author: Hemphill, T.A (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2018
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