Direct Healthcare Cost of Obesity in Brazil: An Application of the Cost-of-Illness Method from the Perspective of the Public Health System in 2011

Michele Lessa de Oliveira; Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos; Everton Nunes da Silva

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121160

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Direct Healthcare Cost of Obesity in Brazil: An Application of the Cost-of-Illness Method from the Perspective of the Public Health System in 2011

Michele Lessa de Oliveira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Lessa de Oliveira, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Everton Nunes da Silva

Affiliation University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Lessa de Oliveira, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Everton Nunes da Silva

Affiliation University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Everton Nunes da Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Lessa de Oliveira, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Everton Nunes da Silva

* E-mail: evertonsilva@unb.br

Affiliation University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Direct Healthcare Cost of Obesity in Brazil: An Application of the Cost-of-Illness Method from the Perspective of the Public Health System in 2011

Michele Lessa de Oliveira,
Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos,
Everton Nunes da Silva

Published: April 1, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121160

About the Authors

Michele Lessa de Oliveira

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Lessa de Oliveira, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Everton Nunes da Silva

Affiliation University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Lessa de Oliveira, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Everton Nunes da Silva

Affiliation University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Everton Nunes da Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Lessa de Oliveira, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Everton Nunes da Silva

* E-mail: evertonsilva@unb.br

Affiliation University of Brasilia, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLO LMPS ENS. Performed the experiments: MLO LMPS ENS. Analyzed the data: MLO LMPS ENS. Wrote the paper: MLO LMPS ENS.

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