title: Why a macroeconomic perspective is critical to the prevention of noncommunicable disease.
abstract: Effective prevention of noncommunicable diseases will require changes in how we live, and thereby effect important economic changes across populations, sectors, and countries. What we do not know is which populations, sectors, or countries will be positively or negatively affected by such changes, nor by how much. Without this information we cannot know which policies will produce effects that are beneficial both for economies and for health.
authors.affiliation: Health System Economics, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK. richard.smith@lshtm.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D004467:Economics; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D012307:Risk Factors