Economic effects of interventions to reduce obesity in Israel

Table 2 Health Care Costs (NIS at 2010 price levels) by BMI

BMI	Health Care Costs	BMI distribution	Population	Health Care Costs of Obesity or Overweight
				Total	per person
	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)
< 19	n.a.	2.4%	115,576	n.a.	n.a.
19	94%	2.5%	121,863	0	0
20	96%	4.6%	220,030	0	0
21	98%	5.3%	258,233	0	0
22	100%	7.2%	345,761	0	0
23	103%	8.7%	420,717	0	0
24	106%	9.8%	473,911	0	0
25	108%	9.8%	473,427	123,593,389	261
26	110%	8.9%	429,905	145,645,761	339
27	112%	8.2%	395,570	156,151,524	395
28	115%	7.2%	346,729	171,456,620	494
29	119%	6.0%	292,084	175,690,848	602
30	123%	4.9%	238,890	196,332,658	822
31	126%	3.1%	149,911	141,832,838	946
32	129%	2.4%	116,060	123,015,268	1060
33	133%	2.5%	120,412	144,311,733	1198
34	137%	1.4%	66,734	88,051,773	1319
35	140%	1.5%	72,054	103,825,223	1441
36	143%	1.1%	51,117	79,881,318	1563
37	146%	0.78%	37,813	63,208,344	1672
38	149%	0.39%	18,906	33,668,568	1781
39	154%	0.35%	16,806	32,499,750	1934
40	158%	0.23%	11,204	23,329,496	2082
41	162%	0.12%	5,602	12,496,246	2231
42	166%	0.19%	9,103	21,657,584	2379
≥ 43	184%	0.55%	26,609	80,664,301	3031
		100%	4,835,024	1,917,313,242
	n.a.= not available

Notes:
(a) Based on the average of sixteen articles [13–28].
(b) Calculations based on Israeli survey data (Personal communication. Dr T. Shohat).
(c) Column (b) multiplied by 4,835,024 persons [29, 30] aged over 20
(d) Excess costs ((a) less 100%) multiplied by population (c) and factors that result in a total of 772,538,141 NIS and 1,144,775,101 NIS [4] additional health care costs attributable to overweight and obesity, respectively.
(e) Column (d)/Column (c)

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