The burden of alcohol-related ill health in the United Kingdom (2009)
Balakrishnan, Ravikumar, Allender, Steven, Scarborough, Peter, Webster, Premila, Rayner, Mike
Background Although moderate alcohol consumption has been shown to confer a protective effect for specific diseases, current societal patterns of alcohol use impose a huge health and economic burden...
Nnoaham, Kelechi E, Sacks, Gary, Rayner, Mike, Mytton, Oliver, Gray, Alastair
Objective To examine the effects, by income group, of targeted food taxes and subsidies on nutrition, health and expenditure in the UK. Methods A model based on consumption data and demand elasticity...
Assessing the burden of overweight and obesity : an example from the United Kingdom (2009)
Allender, Steven, Rayner, Mike
Introduction: In this paper I review previous cost studies for overweight and obesity in the UK. I propose a method for estimating the economic and health costs of overweight and obesity in the UK...
Scarborough, Peter, Peto, Vito, Bhatnagar, Prachi, Kaur, Asha, Leal, Jose, Luengo-Fernandez, Ramon, ...
This publication is the latest edition of a series of statistical compendia and supplements that document the burden of cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom. This series of publications,...
The burden of smoking related ill health in the UK (2009)
Allender, Steven, Balakrishnan, R., Scarborough, Peter, Webster, P., Rayner, Mike
Background: Smoking is one of the biggest avoidable causes of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. This paper quantifies the current health and economic burden of smoking in the UK. It...
The ill health burden of alcohol (2009)
Balakrishnan, Ravikumar, Allender, Steven, Scarborough, Peter, Rayner, Mike
Background Although moderate alcohol consumption has been shown to confer a protective effect for specific diseases, current societal patterns of alcohol use impose a huge health and economic burden...
Scarborough, Peter, Allender, Steven, Rayner, Mike, Goldacre, Michael
Several sets of model-based estimates (synthetic estimates) of the prevalence of risk factors for coronary heart disease for small areas in England have been developed. These have been used in policy...
Sacks, Gary, Rayner, Mike, Swinburn, Boyd
Front-of-pack ‘traffic-light’ nutrition labelling has been widely proposed as a tool to improve public health nutrition. This study examined changes to consumer food purchases after the...
Nnoaham, Kelechi E., Sacks, Gary, Rayner, Mike, Mytton, Oliver, Gray, Alastair
Objective : To examine the effects, by income group, of targeted food taxes and subsidies on nutrition, health and expenditure in the UK. Methods : A model based on consumption data and demand...
Modelling the UK burden of cardiovascular disease to 2020 (2009)
Capewell, Simon, Allender, Steven, Critchley, Julia, Lloyd-Williams, Ffion, O'Flaherty, Martin, Rayner, Mike, ...
This new research report demonstrates the scale of the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) - shown to be large, costly, and increasing. Whilst mortality from CVD has fallen, an increasing...
Sacks, Gary, Rayner, Mike, Swinburn, Boyd
Front-of-pack ‘traffic-light’ nutrition labelling has been widely proposed as a tool to improve public health nutrition. This study examined changes to consumer food purchases after the...
Coronary heart disease statistics (2008)
Allender, Steven, Peto, Vito, Scarborough, Peter, Kaur, Asha, Rayner, Mike
This is the sixteenth edition of Coronary Heart Disease Statistics produced by the British Heart Foundation.It is divided into 13 chapters. * The first two chapters on mortality and morbidity deal...
Regional and social differences in coronary heart disease (2008)
Scarborough, Peter, Allender, Steven, Peto, Vito, Rayner, Mike
This publication provides statistics on regional and social differences in relation to CHD mortality, morbidity, treatment and risk.
European cardiovascular disease statistics (2008)
Allender, Steven, Scarborough, Peter, Peto, Vito, Rayner, Mike, Leal, Jose, Luengo-Fernandez, Ramon, ...
This is the third edition of European cardiovascular disease statistics. The first edition was published in 2000 when the European Union (EU) consisted of 15 Member States. After enlargement in 2004...
The ill health burden of overweight and obesity (2007)
Allender, Steven, Rayner, Mike
This paper reviews previous cost studies of overweight and obesity in the UK. It proposes a method for estimating the economic and health costs of overweight and obesity in the UK which could also be...
Coronary heart disease statistics (2007)
Allender, Steven, Peto, Vito, Scarborough, Peter, Boxer, Anna, Rayner, Mike
This is the fifteenth edition of Coronary Heart Disease Statistics produced by the British Heart Foundation.It is divided into 13 chapters. * The first two chapters on mortality and morbidity deal...
The burden of physical activity-related ill health in the UK (2007)
Allender, Steven, Foster, Charles, Scarborough, Peter, Rayner, Mike
Background: Despite evidence that physical inactivity is a risk factor for a number of diseases, only a third of men and a quarter of women are meeting government targets for physical activity. This...
Economic burden of cardiovascular diseases in the enlarged European Union (2006)
Leal, José, Luengo-Fernández, Ramón, Gray, Alastair, Petersen, Sophie, Rayner, Mike
Aims Cardiovascular disease (CVD), together with its main components, coronary heart disease (CHD), and cerebrovascular diseases, is the main source of morbidity and mortality in the European Union...
Economic burden of cardiovascular diseases in the enlarged European Union (2006)
Leal, José, Luengo-Fernández, Ramón, Gray, Alastair, Petersen, Sophie, Rayner, Mike
Aims Cardiovascular disease (CVD), together with its main components, coronary heart disease (CHD), and cerebrovascular diseases, is the main source of morbidity and mortality in the European Union...
Rayner, Mike, Scarborough, Peter, Allender, Steven
OBJECTIVES: The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease--published by the English Department of Health in 2000--sets out how those within the health service should seek to prevent...
Diet, physical activity and obesity statistics (2006)
Allender, Steven, Peto, Vito, Scarborough, Peter, Boxer, Anna, Rayner, Mike
This publication provides statistics on diet, physical activity and obesity as these relate to the incidence and prevalence of CVD.
Coronary heart disease statistics (2006)
Allender, Steven, Peto, Vito, Scarborough, Peter, Boxer, Anna, Rayner, Mike
This is the fourteenth edition of Coronary heart statistics produced by the British Heart Foundation.It is divided into 13 chapters. * The first two chapters on mortality and morbidity deal with...
Children? A Systematic Review Of The Evidence (2003)
Gerard Hastings, Martine Stead, Laura Mcdermott, Alasdair Forsyth, Anne Marie Mackintosh, Mike Rayner, ...
Director: Professor G B Hastings
De Backer, Guy, Ambrosioni, Ettore, Borch-Johnsen, Knut, Brotons, Carlos, Cifkova, Renata, Dallongeville, Jean, ...
Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action (2001)
Brunner, Eric, Rayner, Mike, Thorogood, Margaret, Margetts, Barrie M., Hooper, Lee, Summerbell, Carolyn, ...
Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the 20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to the effects of maternal and...