title: Osteoporosis care--the need for a district-wide approach.
abstract: Osteoporosis has now been recognised by both the World Health Organization and the UK Department of Health as a major public health problem. It causes more than 200,000 fractures each year in the UK--at an estimated cost to the NHS of 750 million pounds. For the individual, it presents a burden of pain, deformity and premature death.
authors.affiliation: National Osteoporosis Society, Radstock, Bath.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rowe
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy; D006113:United Kingdom