Full Description
Discussions about spending on health and social care often fall into silos, determined by disease or the cause of death. Spending on health and social care is rarely assessed along the lines of a life-course model. It is also ironic that many public health interventions provide relatively convincing value for money, yet we still only spend approximately 5% of the NHS budget on prevention.
Health Economics of Well-being and Well-becoming across the Life-course follows a life-course model with chapters aligned to pregnancy and early years; adolescence; working age; and older age phases of life. It enables the reader to think about older age in a different way and asks them to consider where we should be investing in cost-effective interventions to support the prevention of chronic disease, disability, and premature death later in life. Academically, it brings the rigour of evidence review to an eminently readable book using infographics and take-home messages. The economic and health economics evidence presented, drawing on systematic review evidence where possible, provokes discussion of the tension between prevention and cure in our health and social care systems.
Contents
1: Rhiannon T. Edwards, Catherine L. Lawrence, Bethany F. Anthony, and Lucy Bryning: Introduction
2: Llinos H. Spencer, Ned Hartfiel, Mary Lynch, Nathan Bray, Bethany F. Anthony, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Rhiannon T. Edwards: Cross-cutting Themes Influencing Well-being and Well-becoming across the Life-course
3: Lucy Bryning, Bethany F. Anthony, Nathan Bray, Huw Lloyd-Williams, Joanna Charles, Lorna Tuersley, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Rhiannon T. Edwards: Well-being in the Early Years and Childhood
4: Alexander Torbuck, Eira Winrow, Huw Lloyd-Williams, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Rhiannon T. Edwards: The Well-being and Well-becoming of Adolescents and Young Adults
5: Bethany F. Anthony, Llinos H. Spencer, Lucy Bryning, Huw Lloyd-Williams, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Rhiannon T. Edwards: Well-being of the Workforce
6: Carys Stringer, Lucy Bryning, Llinos H. Spencer, Bethany F. Anthony, Victory Ezeofor, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Rhiannon T. Edwards: Living Well for Longer
7: Carys Stringer, Eira Winrow, Kalpa Pisavadia, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Rhiannon T. Edwards: Dying Well
8: Rhiannon T. Edwards, Catherine L. Lawrence, and Abraham Makanjuola: Diversifying Health Economics to Provide a Life-course Lens on Health, Well-being and Well-becoming
