Aims To identify and assess the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions targeting
the use of alcohol, illicit drugs and tobacco, as well as problematic gambling behavior …

Objective: Evidence on the comparative cost-effectiveness of alcohol control strategies is a
relevant input into public policy and resource allocation. At the global level, this evidence …

Background Problem gambling is a public health issue affecting both the gamblers, their
families, their employers, and society as a whole. Recent law changes in Sweden oblige …

Introduction Excessive alcohol consumption increases the risk of many diseases and
injuries, and the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study estimated that 6% of the burden of …

Background If all costs and all benefits of alcohol use are expressed in monetary terms, the
net costs were 2, 3 to 4, 2 billion euro in 2013. Examples of the costs of alcohol are less …

Alcohol policies have significant potential to curb alcohol-related harms, improve health,
increase productivity, reduce crime and violence, and cut government expenditure. The …

Cost‐effectiveness analyses of health care programs often focus on maximizing health and
ignore nonhealth impacts. Assessing the cost‐effectiveness of public health interventions …

Background Excessive alcohol use increases risks of chronic diseases such as coronary
heart disease and several types of cancer, with associated losses of quality of life and life …

Public health interventions have unique characteristics compared to health technologies,
which present additional challenges for economic evaluation (EE). High quality EEs that are …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the population-level costs, effects and cost-effectiveness of different
alcohol and tobacco control strategies in Estonia. DESIGN: A WHO cost-effectiveness …