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Tesi etd-11062015-113101


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
LARI, ANDREA
URN
etd-11062015-113101
Titolo
Diet, income and chronic degenerative diseases
Dipartimento
ECONOMIA E MANAGEMENT
Corso di studi
ECONOMICS
Relatori
relatore Prof. Luzzati, Tommaso
Parole chiave
  • Obesity
  • Health economics
  • Econometric analysis
  • Chronic degenerative diseases
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • public health policies.
Data inizio appello
01/12/2015
Consultabilità
Tesi non consultabile
Data di rilascio
01/12/2085
Riassunto
In the first chapter after defining the chronic degenerative diseases from a medical point of view, we focus our attention on cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity. We try to analyse the risk factors behind this type of pathologies and we put our effort to understand why they persist during human history.
In the second part we highlight the relationship between economic welfare and healthy diet, we describe the emergence of two eating cultures: slow vs. fast food. Childhood obesity is then the result of bad eating habits, diffused in low-income neighbourhoods, this pathology is considered in all his implications.
After this introductory part, in the end of chapter two, we make a short survey of the existing literature in the health economics field, and we present some interesting paper on the relationships between eating behaviour and the occurrence of pathologies (such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease or infarction).
All the material found is based on American data; hence in chapter three, we try to “replicate” the results with Italian micro-data, “Aspetti della vita quotidiana, ISTAT”. After this step, we try to verify the direct relationship existing between disposable income of households and the quality of the food consumed.
We conclude our analysis examining possible policies to reduce junk-food consumption and improve consumer’s health.
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