Policy makers seeking to reduce childhood obesity must prioritize investment in treatment and primary prevention. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of seven interventions high on the obesity policy ...

Introduction Economic evidence on community health worker (CHW) programmes is crucial for scaling these initiatives. Although decision-analytic models (DAMs) are essential for projecting long-term ...

An analysis of health care workforce data projected significant shortages of rheumatologists in the United States, ...

6 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 7 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...

Objective Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the biggest cause of death in Europe putting an unsustainable burden on already struggling health systems. Increases in obesity are a major cause of NCDs ...

Methods We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis in the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST) population comparing three ...

The world will need nearly 100 million more cancer workers by 2050, a new study warns. The largest gaps will be among nurses and diagnostic specialists, particularly radiologists and pathologists, ...

Background People have come to rely on restaurants and takeaway foods, and less on cooking at home. We examined the association between home cooking and dementia incidence, ascertained through ...

The field of cardio-oncology has expanded over the past 2 decades to address the ever-increasing issues related to cardiovascular disease in patients with cancer and survivors. There is increasing ...

Along with the many and varied sessions in the programme, plenaries will come from Madeleine Sumption and Stuart McDonald, with Madeleine speaking on How much should immigration policymakers care ...