Based on our calculations overweight and obesity are costing South Africa’s health system R33 billion (US$1.9bn) a year. This represents 15.38% of government health expenditure and is equivalent to 0.67% of GDP. Annual per person cost of overweight and obesity is R2,769.
AuthorMicheal Boachie
Micheal Boachie is a Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand.
Micheal is a Researcher at SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - Priceless SA. Micheal has research interest in Health Economics: healthcare financing; provider-payment mechanisms; economic burden of diseases, cost-effectiveness analysis and fiscal policies for health.