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Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it alone

  • Written by Lennert Veerman, Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it aloneObesity is rising and so are the costs.Shutterstock

This is the first of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the second part here.

Obesity levels in Australia and around the world are high and rising. This comes at an enormous economic cost for society and individuals, not only in terms of health care and productivity, but also in...

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