I’m really not sure how to interpret this beyond both are rising?
The United States ranks 13 in obesity rate. Where are Tonga, Nauru, Tuvalu, Samoa, the Bahamas, the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, Kiribati, Micronesia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Egypt?
So, the U.S. spends way too much for the obesity we get? /s
I’m curious what changes occurred that allowed the expenditures to generally stop growing from 2015-2019.
It cost a lot of money to stay healthy when you’re obese.
The graph even looks like stretch marks
the more we spend on health, the fatter people get, this should be looked into!
Cool visualisation. Some feedback: Add a title to the figure, mark the start and end points with different symbols, and label some of the bigger or outlying countries.
There is one country that appears to buck the trend, but I can’t tell if it’s cost or obesity decreasing.
If you plot prevalence of obesity vs life expectancy by year, you’ll find a strong correlation and it’ll look as if it’s good for longevity to be obese.
It’s not really. It’s just that correlation isn’t the same as causation.
I’m seeing reports of obesity’s relevance to US healthcare data across multiple Reddit threads and suspect this is a lame attempt by the healthcare industry to excuse the fact that they value profits over people
Increase
in
health
expenditure
is
largely
due
to
the
aging
population,
no?
I was assured the data would be beautiful
Correlation != causation. During those times people in a lot of countries got considerably wealthier and with the newly acquired wealth they could finally spend more money on healthcare. At the same time, whenever people get better off obesity often follows. Second issue would be that (I assume) X axis isn’t corrected for inflation as well and it went rampant worldwide in the past 4-5 years with many countries facing double-digits for many years in a row.
It’s common sense, that obesity being unhealthy will raise healthcare expenditure, but in this particular graph there’s too many factors in play to say that it’s caused only (or mainly) by obesity alone.
Where are the years?
Can you show the other country names?
Where’s all the people that come out of the woodwork to remind us that “obesity is actually cheaper on taxpayers because the people die sooner”?
This post is more of a dialog to another post which was getting some traction. I don’t think my plot is that insightful, but I think the other post could be misleading if the discussion is “why are US healthcare costs so high?”
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Source: https://ourworldindata.org/obesity
https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/global-health-spending-1995-2021
Tools: R, ggplot
With log scale spending
https://imgur.com/a/CXNyWtl
Never say America isn’t exceptional
I’m really not sure how to interpret this beyond both are rising?
The United States ranks 13 in obesity rate. Where are Tonga, Nauru, Tuvalu, Samoa, the Bahamas, the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, Kiribati, Micronesia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Egypt?
So, the U.S. spends way too much for the obesity we get? /s
I’m curious what changes occurred that allowed the expenditures to generally stop growing from 2015-2019.
It cost a lot of money to stay healthy when you’re obese.
The graph even looks like stretch marks
the more we spend on health, the fatter people get, this should be looked into!
Cool visualisation. Some feedback: Add a title to the figure, mark the start and end points with different symbols, and label some of the bigger or outlying countries.
There is one country that appears to buck the trend, but I can’t tell if it’s cost or obesity decreasing.
If you plot prevalence of obesity vs life expectancy by year, you’ll find a strong correlation and it’ll look as if it’s good for longevity to be obese.
It’s not really. It’s just that correlation isn’t the same as causation.
I’m seeing reports of obesity’s relevance to US healthcare data across multiple Reddit threads and suspect this is a lame attempt by the healthcare industry to excuse the fact that they value profits over people
Increase
in
health
expenditure
is
largely
due
to
the
aging
population,
no?
I was assured the data would be beautiful
Correlation != causation. During those times people in a lot of countries got considerably wealthier and with the newly acquired wealth they could finally spend more money on healthcare. At the same time, whenever people get better off obesity often follows. Second issue would be that (I assume) X axis isn’t corrected for inflation as well and it went rampant worldwide in the past 4-5 years with many countries facing double-digits for many years in a row.
It’s common sense, that obesity being unhealthy will raise healthcare expenditure, but in this particular graph there’s too many factors in play to say that it’s caused only (or mainly) by obesity alone.
Where are the years?
Can you show the other country names?
Where’s all the people that come out of the woodwork to remind us that “obesity is actually cheaper on taxpayers because the people die sooner”?
This post is more of a dialog to another post which was getting some traction. I don’t think my plot is that insightful, but I think the other post could be misleading if the discussion is “why are US healthcare costs so high?”
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/phjuogckSu
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