Showing posts with label burden of disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burden of disease. Show all posts

Monday, 23 March 2015

Why social care matters: The next five years

"This document sets out the distinctive role and value of social care in the 21st century, when we are living longer, often with multiple health conditions that need a focus on the whole person and not just a single disease."

Distinctive, valued, personal: Why social care matters: The next five years
Directors of Adult Social Services
March 2015

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Sunday, 10 August 2014

The future burden of obesity-related diseases

"Modelling future disease trends is a useful tool for policymakers so that they can allocate resources effectively and implement policies to prevent non-communicable diseases."

The future burden of obesity-related diseases in the 53 WHO European-Region countries and the impact of effective interventions: a modelling study
L Webber, D Divajeva, T Marsh, K McPherson, M Brown, G Galea, J Breda
BMJ Open, 2014, 4:e004787

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