Metropolitan Comparison. The average wage for medical and clinical technicians, including phlebotomists, varies by metro area in Tennessee. Chattanooga technicians could expect a mean $17.12 an hour or $35,600 annually while those in Knoxville made a mean $15.39 an hour or $32,010 a year.
Over a lifetime, childhood obesity costs $19,000 per child. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140407090220.htm. Childhood obesity comes with an estimated price tag of $19,000 per child when comparing lifetime medical costs to those of a normal weight child, according to an analysis. When multiplied by the number of obese 10-year-olds in the United States, lifetime medical costs for this age alone reach roughly $14 billion.
Childhood obesity is among the most serious health challenges of the 21st century. 1  Over the past three decades, the prevalence of children in the U.S. who are obese has doubled, while the number of adolescents who are obese has tripled.  About one in eight preschoolers (ages 2 to 5) in the U.S. are obese.