Nutrition Policy for the Prevention of Disease: Issues of Cost-effectiveness

Norman J. Temple

doi:10.1007/978-1-60761-308-4_2

Nutrition Policy for the Prevention of Disease: Issues of Cost-effectiveness

Norman J. Temple

Centre for Science

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Abstract

Governments should implement nutrition policies that will improve population health.These policies include reducing the salt content of processed foods, use of dietary supplements of proven value, eliminating hydrogenated oils that contain trans fatty acids from food.Implementation of the proposed policies would cost relatively little and should achieve significant health benefits within a few years.These policies therefore have a very attractive cost-effectiveness (i.e., they generate quality-adjusted life years [QALYs] at a fraction of the cost of many types of conventional medical treatment). Governments should implement nutrition policies that will improve population health. These policies include reducing the salt content of processed foods, use of dietary supplements of proven value, eliminating hydrogenated oils that contain trans fatty acids from food. Implementation of the proposed policies would cost relatively little and should achieve significant health benefits within a few years. These policies therefore have a very attractive cost-effectiveness (i.e., they generate quality-adjusted life years [QALYs] at a fraction of the cost of many types of conventional medical treatment).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nutrition and Health (United Kingdom)
Pages	19-29
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-308-4_2
Publication status	Published - 2011

Publication series

Name	Nutrition and Health (United Kingdom)
Volume	Part F3887
ISSN (Print)	2628-197X
ISSN (Electronic)	2628-1961

Keywords

Cardiovascular disease
Coronary heart disease
Cost-effectiveness
Dietary supplements
Food advertising
Food labels
Food prices
Government policy
Health care
Health promotion
Hydrogenated oils
Hypertension
Nutrition policy
Population health
Public health
Quality-adjusted life years
Salt
Statins
Subsidies on food
Taxes on food price
trans fatty acids
vitamin D

UN SDGs

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