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The effect of metabolically obese but normal weight on the labor market in South Korea

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Frame of Image iminished over 50%, while consumption of The Effect of Metabolically Obese but Normal Weight on the Labor Market in South Korea meats and ready-to-eat has more than doubled for those periods. It is easy to find these trends in the Middle East, Pacific Islands, and Eastern European countries, where they have adopted westernized food consumption patterns recently, resulting in rapidly increasing rate of obesity. Increasing numbers of obese people are causes of some individual or social problems in some Table 1. Country Comparison of Obesity : Adult Prevalence Rate Rank 1 10 18 21 139 157 Source : CIA, 2014, The World Factbook. Country American Samoa Kuwait United States Czech Republic Korea, South Japan Obesity rate (%) 74.6 42.0 33.0 32.7 7.7 5.0 1) Central Intelligence Agency (2014), The World Factbook, Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/ library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2228rank.html 26 KIET Industrial Economic Review developed countries, mainly the United States and United Kingdom, and diffusing to other countries that have adopted westernized food consumption recently (See Table 1). Obesity problems bring with them a significant burden of not only individual mortality but also social exclusion and discrimination. For this reason, obesity problems impose direct and indirect costs in two ways: health and employment. First, substantial health care costs are associated with treating obesity and related symptoms. Also, social health care costs are higher for ob


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Title The effect of metabolically obese but normal weight on the labor market in South Korea
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Cho, Yongwon

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[Seoul] : Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade
Date 2014-06
Series Title; No KIET Industrial Economic Review / vol. 19(no. 3)
Pages 17
Subject Country South Korea(Asia and Pacific)
Language English
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Subject Social Development < Health
Holding KIET; KDI School
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