Chronic Diseases: An economic perspective

This major report, 'Chronic disease: an economic perspective', written by Marc Suhrcke, Rachel A. Nugent, David Stuckler and Lorenzo Rocco for OxHA, demonstrates that chronic diseases – heart and lung disease, cancer and diabetes – are having a negative economic impact on both the developed and developing world and should thus be adequately addressed by domestic and international policy makers.

The Executive Summary is below.

• Click here >> to download the report as a pdf.
• Click here >> for a press release introducing the report.
• Click here >> for the Web-Annex of supplementary graphs and tables.