Promoting health, preventing disease : the economic case / edited by David McDaid, Franco Sassi and Sherry Merkur.
- Date:
- 2015
- Books
About this work
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.
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWA30 2015P96Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780335262267
- 0335262260
- 9780335262274 (electronic)
- 0335262279 (electronic)