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Title |
The costs of overweight and obesity-related diseases in the Brazilian public health system: cross-sectional study
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-440 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Luciana Bahia, Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho, Laura Augusta Barufaldi, Gabriela de Azevedo Abreu, Thainá Alves Malhão, Camila Pepe Ribeiro de Souza, Denizar Vianna Araujo |
Abstract |
Obesity is a major global epidemic and a burden to society and health systems. It is well known risk factor for a number of chronic medical conditions with high morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to provide an estimate of the direct costs associated to outpatient and inpatient care of overweight and obesity related diseases in the perspective of the Brazilian Health System (SUS). |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 331 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Brazil | 10 | 3% |
United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
Chile | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 318 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 72 | 22% |
Student > Bachelor | 61 | 18% |
Student > Postgraduate | 24 | 7% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 7% |
Researcher | 21 | 6% |
Other | 61 | 18% |
Unknown | 69 | 21% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 72 | 22% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 39 | 12% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 30 | 9% |
Social Sciences | 17 | 5% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 5% |
Other | 75 | 23% |
Unknown | 82 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 May 2018.
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#6,940,615
of 24,216,270 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,296
of 15,955 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,534
of 167,343 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#99
of 270 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,216,270 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,955 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
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