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US: Stark diabetes warning

26 November 2010
A new report from UnitedHealth’s Center for Health Reform & Modernization has predicted that, unless current trends are reversed, an astonishing 50 per cent of Americans could have diabetes or pre-diabetes within a decade. This would account for 10 per cent...
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Mind the gap!

07 November 2010
A new report from the Center for Global Development, ‘Where have all the donors gone? Scarce donor funding for non-communicable diseases’ (click here >>), has highlighted the disparity between the burden of chronic diseases in developing countries, and...
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Still inequitable?

29 October 2010
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, one of UK’s leading public-health academics, has always advocated that social inequalities are one of the main cause of common public-health issues such as smoking, alcohol, poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle. His work has shown...
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Fit not Fat? – and A Heavy Burden

03 October 2010
Two new reports starkly highlighted the costs of the epidemic of obesity, focusing particularly on 11 OECD countries – in Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat – and the United States – in A Heavy Burden: The Individual Costs of being Overweight...
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How best to save lives in Australia

07 September 2010
A new study from Deakin University in Australia, Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention, has identified key preventive health measures that will be best at saving both money and lives. The study looked at 150 possible interventions, focusing in particular on...
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Staggering toll of cancer

20 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....
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SES bigger risk factor for CVD…

03 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...
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Food insecurity and chronic disease

05 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...
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UK: many unaware they have diabetes

02 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...
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Insurer incentive to shed pounds

29 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...
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