Given that obesity produces significant social costs, public health authorities need to be far more pro-active in designing interventions
Costa-Font, J.
(2014).
Given that obesity produces significant social costs, public health authorities need to be far more pro-active in designing interventions.
(2014).
Given that obesity produces significant social costs, public health authorities need to be far more pro-active in designing interventions.
There is an escalating obesity problem in the UK. Joan Costa-Font argues that obesity is an example of market failure and that policy should focus on changing social rewards to unhealthy food consumption and tackling the prevailing social norms with regards to sedentary behavior at home and the workplace.