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Staggering toll of canc...

20th August, 2010
A new report, by the American Cancer Society and LIVESTRONG, states that ‘for the first time, research has shown that cancer has the most devastating economic impact of any cause of death in the world’, nearly 19 per cent higher than heart disease. The total economic impact...
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SES bigger risk factor ...

03rd August, 2010
A new UCLA study published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology has suggested that socioeconomic status has more of an impact than race or ethnicity for disparities in cardiovascular disease risk in the United States. Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine found that...
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Food insecurity and chr...

05th July, 2010
The USDA reported that after a decade of relative stability, the percentage of US households that are food insecure had increased by 32% in 2008, reaching 14.6% of households nationally. The figures are even higher among households below the federal poverty line (42%), black and Hispanic...
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UK: many unaware they h...

02nd July, 2010
Campaigners have warned that nearly 1 million people living in the United Kingdom are unaware that they have developed diabetes. Numbers of people diagnosed with the condition, which is often caused by lifestyle factors, is set to soar over the next few years as a programme of health...
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Insurer incentive to sh...

29th April, 2010
As private health insurers struggle with growing claims for hospital treatment for obesity such as laparoscopic gastric band surgery, insurers in Australia are giving cash bonuses to overweight people to encourage them to lose weight. Overweight individuals can receive up to Aus$350...
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Increasing cost of heal...

16th April, 2010
A five-year study in Queensland, published this week in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, has shown that the price of fruit and veg in Australia is increasing much more rapidly than the prices of other less healthy foods. In this time period, the inflation rate...
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Incentives for early di...

05th April, 2010
New moves in Australia will see GPs being given a lump sum each year (an average of Aus$1,200) to look after each diabetes patient who enrols voluntarily with them, in efforts to improve the management of chronic disease, and reduce health-care costs. This lump sum – costing Aus$436...
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Bariatric surgery or li...

30th March, 2010
New analysis, commissioned by Medibank Private in Australia, has found that demand for obesity surgery is rising even faster than obesity rates – but that there is no positive cost-benefit. Bariatric surgery is becoming increasingly popular, but, at Aus $10,935 for gastric banding,...
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Only ¼ of Aussies are ...

04th March, 2010
Research in the Medical Journal of Australia by Stephen Colagiuri et al. has found that the direct costs of overweight and obesity in Australia are substantially higher than earlier estimates – at Aus$21 billion per year ($6.5 billion for overweight and $14.5 billion for obesity)....
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UK: the cost of cancer...

17th February, 2010
Policy Exchange has launched the most comprehensive study to have taken place in the UK researching the total costs of cancer (click here >> to access the report). Taking into account health-care costs (£5.49 billion), costs to individuals and families (£0.08 billion) and...
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