Stanton, Kenneth R.; Acs, Zoltan J. - In: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 4 (2005) 3, pp. 139-146
If present increases in the rate of obesity persist, by 2015 half of the population in the US could be obese. This article presents the case that the reason for the epidemic is an `infrastructure of obesity' that fuels the phenomenon. To control this epidemic, public policy in general and health...