All else being equal, greater wealth makes it easier to live a healthy life, both at individual
and population levels. Greater personal wealth allows us to choose healthy diets, live in …

Investment in health is not only a desirable, but also an essential priority, for most societies.
However, our health systems face tough and complex challenges, in part derived from new …

Cost-of-illness (COI) was the first economic evaluation technique used in the health field.
The principal aim was to measure the economic burden of illness to society. Its usefulness …

OBJECTIVES: To assess international comparability of general cost of illness (COI) studies
and to examine the extent to which COI estimates differ and why. METHODS: Five general …

Cost of illness Page 1 Centre for Public Health Forecasting National Institute for Public
Health and the Environment PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands Tel: +31-30-2749111; …

Although evidence for the connection between health and the economy is increasing, most
countries have still not been able to exploit this link fully by instituting effective public …

The breakdown of the socialist system in the late 20th century gave some of the countries
affected the opportunity to establish the prerequisites for sustainable economic development …

The public concern with the health of nations has increased sharply in the past decades. Yet
at the same time, the awareness grew that the resources to meet this concern are limited …

In January 2000, WHO Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland set up a commission on
macroeconomics and health to clarify the links between health and economic development …

Economics is usually a rather doom-laden subject, and in this respect is linked indirectly with
medicine through the observation that the only two things in life that are certain are death …