Estimated Costs of Clinical and Surgical Treatment of Severe Obesity in the Brazilian Public Health System

Paula Rosales Zubiaurre,Luciana Bahia,Michelle Quarti Machado da Rosa,Roberto Pereira Assumpção,Alexandre Vontobel Padoin,Samanta Pereira Sussembach,Everton Nunes da Silva,Cláudio Corá Mottin

Estimated Costs of Clinical and Surgical Treatment of Severe Obesity in the Brazilian Public Health System

2017

Paula Rosales Zubiaurre
Luciana Bahia
Michelle Quarti Machado da Rosa
Roberto Pereira Assumpção
Alexandre Vontobel Padoin
Samanta Pereira Sussembach
Everton Nunes da Silva
Cláudio Corá Mottin

Background Obesity is a major global epidemic and a burden to society and health systems. This study aimed to estimate and compare the anual costs of clinical and surgical treatment of severe obesity from the perspective of the Brazilian Public Health System.

Keywords:

Intensive care medicine
Obesity
Severe obesity
General surgery
Diabetes mellitus
Public health
Medical emergency
Medicine
surgical treatment
healthcare system

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