Overweight Population in Russia: Statistical Analysis
Abstract
This article discusses population’s overweight as one of the top-priority problems both for public health and national economy in many countries in the past several decades. The authors comment on the studies that estimate the substantial growth of the number of overweight people and persons suffering from obesity that bring to light socio-economic causes and consequences of this phenomenon. The overweight impacts are explored as the costs for all economic agents: individuals, companies (employers) and the government.
This article presents the descriptive analysis based on two representative population surveys held by Levada-Center in 2011 and 2017. These results proved uptrend of population overweight in Russia as in many other countries. The correlations were found between overweight and the following socio-economic factors: education, marriage and employment status of individual. Overweight is also associated with higher medical spending and work absenteeism, which indicates a variety of large-scale economic losses.
Supporting agencies: This work was carried out as part of the Basic Research Program of the National Research University - Higher School of Economics
About the Authors
Yuliya D. Aleksandrova
National Research University - Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Postgraduate Student, Doctoral School of Economics
Marina G. Kolosnitsyna
National Research University - Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Prof.; Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences
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