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Disease Prevention: Saving Lives or Reducing Health Care Costs?

BACKGROUND: Disease prevention has been claimed to reduce health care costs. However, preventing lethal diseases increases life expectancy and, thereby, indirectly increases the demand for health care. Previous studies have argued that on balance preventing diseases that reduce longevity increases h...

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Autores principales: Grootjans-van Kampen, Inge, Engelfriet, Peter M., van Baal, Pieter H. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25116681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104469