Affiliation:
1. Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Obesity, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to provide a contemporary estimate of the health care cost of physical inactivity in Canadian adults. The health care cost was estimated using a prevalence-based approach. The estimated direct, indirect, and total health care costs of physical inactivity in Canada in 2009 were $2.4 billion, $4.3 billion, and $6.8 billion, respectively. These values represented 3.8%, 3.6%, and 3.7% of the overall health care costs.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Physiology (medical),Nutrition and Dietetics,Physiology,General Medicine,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Cited by
100 articles.
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