Title :
Social and economical burden of obesity - multi - model analysis
Author :
Maja Atanasijević-Kunc;Joče Drinovec
Author_Institution :
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Trž
fDate :
6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Obesity has reached epidemic extensions and represents an important social and economical burden for the society as well as for many individuals. It also represents a risk factor for developing chronic diseases and consequently serious health complications. In the paper the structure of mathematical description organization is presented enabling the coexistence of different mathematical descriptions indicating different problem levels and so enabling the estimation of obese population, connections with other diseases or risk factors and estimation of economic burden as well as the possible consequences of healing interventions.
Keywords :
"Obesity","Mathematical model","Diabetes","Economics","Estimation","Frequency modulation"
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2011 33rd International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-897-6