The health economic evidence of nutrition tends to be limited. An important reason is that
nutritionals do not always fall under the coverage requirements for reimbursement, like …

Health economics is a discipline used to determine the health effects of an intervention and
evaluate the cost and benefits of that intervention in order to allocate scarce resources. As …

This is a comment on the paper by Irz et al.(2015) in this journal, on nutritional
recommendations. Irz et al.(2015) propose to compute the cost of a nutritional constraint as …

Objectives There is a growing interest in nutrition interventions to improve health, including
both nutritional products and broader, public health, interventions to change diets. Although …

Economists have devised three main techniques to evaluate healthcare treatments: cost-
benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis. Many countries have …

Backgroundand aims: As policy-makers assess the value of money spent on health care,
research in the field of health economics is expanding rapidly. This review covers a period of …

The role of nutrition to optimize the use of scarce resources through its linkage with health
and welfare should be considered of interest by healthcare decision makers. A favorable …

In some ways, economists and physicians make uneasy partners in the great enterprise of
health economics. Economists' language is of constraints, budgets, costs, trade-offs, and …

Background Health care decision-makers have begun to realize that medical nutrition plays
an important role in the delivery of care, and it needs to be seen as a sole category within …

Improving health through better nutrition of the population may contribute to enhanced
efficiency and sustainability of healthcare systems. A recent expert meeting investigated in …