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Room: Ball Room
Time: Thu 10:15 AM-11:30 AM

Impact of Obesity

Chair: Heather Brown

Presentations

1. Does physical appearance matter? Overweight and labor market discrimination

   Presenter: Giovanna Labartino (Bocconi University)

2. Hospital consumption and costs in a cohort of obese patients from Northern Italy

   Presenter: Eva Pagano (University of Turin)

3. Obese and Absent? Exploring the Relationship between Obesity and Sickness Absence in Sweden

   Presenter: Margareta Dackehag (Lund University)

4. Future health care costs of obesity: Results from the KORA case cohort study, 1995-2005

   Presenter: Silke Wolfenstetter (Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health )