Our findings show that compared to normo-weight patients, the obese generate the largest cost differential over the entire life cycle, while the overweight spends less than the normo-weight, mainly because of savings generated starting from early middle age onward
Data relative to 991,917 adults were analyzed. Annual per capita expenditure rose from 252.2 Euro among individuals with normal weight to 752.9 Euro among those with class 3 obesity
We study the interplay between mobility, measured with anonymized mobile phone data, and mental health and report no significant effect of mobility restrictions on antidepressants and anxiolytics purchases in 2020.
Using the Future Elderly Model, we simulate longevity and disability over the remaining lifetime for cohorts of older Europeans and Americans. We see that investment in both treatment and prevention for chronic conditions couls lead to major gains in Life Expectancy
The positive productivity growth over the full period in both countries reflects output growth being faster than input growth over much of the period considered
Prevalence of multiple chronic diseases and healthcare utilization increased among older and younger adults between 2004 and 2014
In this very large study, 557,145 men and women older than 18 years were analyzed to assess the association between aging, excessive adiposity and health costs
We partition the standard contiguity matrix in two matrices (within and between), disentangling the overall spatial effect and deriving testable implications. In the application we study expenditures from the Italian Local Health Authority using spatial panel