Impact and cost-effectiveness of a universal strategy to promote physical activity in primary care: population-based Cohort study and Markov model

Martin Gulliford (), Judith Charlton, Nawaraj Bhattarai, Christopher Charlton and Caroline Rudisill

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2014, vol. 15, issue 4, 351 pages

Abstract: A universal strategy to promote physical activity in primary care has the potential to increase life years lived free from physical disease. There is only weak evidence that a universal intervention strategy might prove cost-effective. Copyright The Author(s) 2014

Keywords: Physical activity; Primary care; Markov model; Outcomes; Cost-effectiveness; Depression; Diabetes; Coronary heart disease; Stroke; Colorectal cancer; I10 Health; General; D61; Allocative efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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