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The challenge of tackling the obesity economic burden: The case of Uruguay

2019-04-17

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The estimation of the burden of a disease is one of the tasks with the longest tradition in Health Economics, which allows us to know the volume of resources that a country allocates to a specific health problem, and to compare countries and diseases. Although the fundamental objective of Health Systems is not to reduce the cost of the disease, but to improve the health of the population, the studies of burden of...

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Literature Corpus work: 7356fe93-db9b-5d40-b526-6728d15f0400
DOI: 10.12688/emeraldopenres.12869.1

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