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The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of obesity: nearly one in three adults are obese.
As a result, people in the United Kingdom live on average 2.7 years less due to overweight.
Overweight accounts for 8.4% of health expenditure; and lowers labour market outputs by the equivalent of 944 thousand full-time workers per year. Combined, this means that overweight reduces United Kingdom’s GDP by 3.4%.
To cover these costs, each person in the United Kingdom pays an additional GBP 409 in taxes per year.
Lost labour market output based on average wages, per capita per year, in USD PPP
To tackle the obesity epidemic, the United Kingdom has put in place a number of policies, including voluntary front-of-pack food labelling and taxes on sugary drinks. However, more can be done. Implementing a communications policy package or policies to encourage reformulation would prevent non-communicable diseases, reduce health expenditure and increase the productivity of the workforce:
A communications package – with mandatory front-of-pack labelling and advertising regulations, and mass media campaigns – could prevent 130 thousand non-communicable diseases by 2050, save GBP 54 million per year in health cost, and increase employment and productivity by the equivalent of 9 thousand full-time workers per year.
Public health actions to promote healthier lifestyles have a positive impact on population health and are an excellent investment: On average, for every 1 GBP invested, up to 6 GBP are returned in economic benefits
Source: OECD, The Heavy Burden of Obesity, 2019
Find the full report at oe.cd/obesity2019 where you can read the online version as an OECD Library Subscriber or purchase the printed version. Nothing free that I could find.
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The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of obesity: nearly one in three adults are obese.
As a result, people in the United Kingdom live on average 2.7 years less due to overweight.
Overweight accounts for 8.4% of health expenditure; and lowers labour market outputs by the equivalent of 944 thousand full-time workers per year. Combined, this means that overweight reduces United Kingdom’s GDP by 3.4%.
To cover these costs, each person in the United Kingdom pays an additional GBP 409 in taxes per year.
Lost labour market output based on average wages, per capita per year, in USD PPP
To tackle the obesity epidemic, the United Kingdom has put in place a number of policies, including voluntary front-of-pack food labelling and taxes on sugary drinks. However, more can be done. Implementing a communications policy package or policies to encourage reformulation would prevent non-communicable diseases, reduce health expenditure and increase the productivity of the workforce:
A communications package – with mandatory front-of-pack labelling and advertising regulations, and mass media campaigns – could prevent 130 thousand non-communicable diseases by 2050, save GBP 54 million per year in health cost, and increase employment and productivity by the equivalent of 9 thousand full-time workers per year.
Public health actions to promote healthier lifestyles have a positive impact on population health and are an excellent investment: On average, for every 1 GBP invested, up to 6 GBP are returned in economic benefits
Source: OECD, The Heavy Burden of Obesity, 2019
Find the full report at oe.cd/obesity2019 where you can read the online version as an OECD Library Subscriber or purchase the printed version. Nothing free that I could find.
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