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SUBMITTER: Seidel F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10421383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seidel Felix F Oebel Benjamin B Stein Lennart L Michalke Amelie A Gaugler Tobias T
Nutrients 20230730 15
Although global food consumption costs more in terms of impact on human life than money is spent on it, health costs have not been consistently quantified or included in food prices to date. In this paper, a method to determine the external health costs of nutrition and dietetics is developed by employing the cost-of-illness (COI) and true cost accounting (TCA) approaches. This is done exemplarily for the reference country Germany. The results show that 601.50 € per capita and 50.38 billion € in ...[more]