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The burden of food related ill health in the UK
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- Published on: 20 December 2005
- Published on: 20 December 2005Cost to NHS of treatment of food-related ill healthShow More
Dear Editor,
Estimating the economic impact of ill health and the cost- benefit, and cost effectiveness, of interventions intended to reduce it, is an important but difficult exercise. The thoughtful paper by Rayner and Scarborough is to be welcomed as a serious attempt to quantify one aspect of this calculation: the direct costs to the NHS of treatment arising from the proportion of certain diseases attributabl...
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