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The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented rise in rates and symptoms of eating disorders among Canadian youth. To date, there is a lack of national surveillance and costing data in Canada to inform policymakers and healthcare leaders on how to best address the surge in new and existing cases...

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Autores principales: Coelho, Jennifer S., Booij, Linda, Katzman, Debra K., Dimitropoulos, Gina, Obeid, Nicole
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10182541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37179405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00794-z
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author Coelho, Jennifer S.
Booij, Linda
Katzman, Debra K.
Dimitropoulos, Gina
Obeid, Nicole
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented rise in rates and symptoms of eating disorders among Canadian youth. To date, there is a lack of national surveillance and costing data in Canada to inform policymakers and healthcare leaders on how to best address the surge in new and existing cases. This has resulted in the Canadian healthcare system being unprepared to adequately respond to the increased needs. Therefore, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, decision-makers, and community organizations across Canada are collaborating to compare pre-and post-pandemic costing data from national and province-level healthcare systems in an effort to address this gap. Results from this economic cost analysis will be an important first step in informing and guiding policy on possible adaptations to services to better fulfill the needs of youth with eating disorders in Canada. We highlight how gaps in surveillance and costing data can impact the field of eating disorders in an international context.
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spelling pubmed-101825412023-05-14 The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care Coelho, Jennifer S. Booij, Linda Katzman, Debra K. Dimitropoulos, Gina Obeid, Nicole J Eat Disord Comment The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented rise in rates and symptoms of eating disorders among Canadian youth. To date, there is a lack of national surveillance and costing data in Canada to inform policymakers and healthcare leaders on how to best address the surge in new and existing cases. This has resulted in the Canadian healthcare system being unprepared to adequately respond to the increased needs. Therefore, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, decision-makers, and community organizations across Canada are collaborating to compare pre-and post-pandemic costing data from national and province-level healthcare systems in an effort to address this gap. Results from this economic cost analysis will be an important first step in informing and guiding policy on possible adaptations to services to better fulfill the needs of youth with eating disorders in Canada. We highlight how gaps in surveillance and costing data can impact the field of eating disorders in an international context. BioMed Central 2023-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10182541/ /pubmed/37179405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00794-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Coelho, Jennifer S.
Booij, Linda
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Dimitropoulos, Gina
Obeid, Nicole
The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care
title The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care
title_full The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care
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title_full_unstemmed The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10182541/
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