Promoting health, preventing disease : the economic case / edited by David McDaid, Franco Sassi and Sherry Merkur.

Date:
2015
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Description

Provides economic perspective on health promotion and chronic disease prevention - includes framework for analysing consequences of prevention strategies. Provides evidence of economic impacts of policy interventions in core areas of public health action - tackling alcohol-related harms, improving quality of nutrition, promoting physical activity.

Publication/Creation

Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2015.

Physical description

xxix, 337 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Introduction -- II. Making the economic case for tackling key risk factors for health -- III. Broader perspectives on the economics of health promotion and disease prevention -- IV. Translating evidence into policy.

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    Medical Collection
    WA30 2015P96
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ISBN

  • 9780335262267
  • 0335262260
  • 9780335262274 (electronic)
  • 0335262279 (electronic)