Health And Wellness Promoted To Prevent Obesity

The Emirati government is concerned that inactive lifestyles and unbalanced diets are causing major health problems including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases in the country. A recent event held in Dubai designed to promote 'wellness' among the population has underlined our outlook for the UAE. BMI believes that the UAE healthcare market is expected to increase in value from US$5.9bn in 2008 to US$12.6bn by 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate of 16.5% in US dollar

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