Abstract
Obesity is a severe health status that might cause serious adverse effects on human health. Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes are a small number of diseases that obese people might have to deal with due to excessive body fat levels. People, therefore, might face the unpreventable burden of possible health expenditures. China is one of the countries facing increasing both obesity rates and health expenditure over the years. This paper aims to analyse the relationship between obesity rates and health expenditure in China for the years between 1978 and 2015. We estimated a simple linear regression model by using ordinary least squares to find out if obesity rates have any impact on health expenditure in China for the given period. We used total health expenditure as a percentage of the gross domestic product as the dependent variable, while the obesity rate is the independent variable. The results show that health expenditure rises with increasing obesity rates in China from 1978 to 2015.
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