Prevention of non-communicable disease: best buys, wasted buys, and contestable buys

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai; Yot Teerawattananon; Rachel A Archer; Alia Luz; Manushi Sharma; Waranya Rattanavipapong; Thunyarat Anothaisintawee; Rachel L Bacon; Tazeem Bhatia; Jesse Bump; Kalipso Chalkidou; Adam G Elshaug; David D Kim; Sumithra Krishnamurthy Reddiar; Ryota Nakamura; Peter J Neumann; Arisa Shichijo; Peter C Smith; Anthony J Culyer

doi:10.1136/bmj.m141

Prevention of non-communicable disease: best buys, wasted buys, and contestable buys

BMJ. 2020 Jan 28:368:m141. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m141.

Authors

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai^{1

2}, Yot Teerawattananon^{3

4

5}, Rachel A Archer³, Alia Luz³, Manushi Sharma³, Waranya Rattanavipapong³, Thunyarat Anothaisintawee⁶, Rachel L Bacon^{7

8}, Tazeem Bhatia⁹, Jesse Bump¹⁰, Kalipso Chalkidou^{11

12}, Adam G Elshaug^{13

14}, David D Kim⁷, Sumithra Krishnamurthy Reddiar¹⁰, Ryota Nakamura¹⁵, Peter J Neumann^{7

16}, Arisa Shichijo¹⁵, Peter C Smith^{17

18}, Anthony J Culyer¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Programme, Bangkok, Thailand wanrudee.i@hitap.net.
² University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Programme, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁵ National Health Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁶ Department of Family Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁷ Tufts Medical Center, Boston, USA.
⁸ Boston University, Boston, USA.
⁹ Public Health England, London, UK.
¹⁰ Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
¹¹ Centre for Global Development, London, UK.
¹² Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹³ University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁴ Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA.
¹⁵ Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁶ Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
¹⁷ University of York, York, UK.
¹⁸ Imperial College Business School, London, UK.

Abstract

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai and colleagues highlight the importance of local context in making decisions about implementing interventions for preventing non-communicable diseases

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cost of Illness*
Cost-Benefit Analysis / methods*
Global Health*
Health Policy
Health Priorities*
Humans
Legal Epidemiology
Noncommunicable Diseases* / economics
Noncommunicable Diseases* / epidemiology
Noncommunicable Diseases* / prevention & control
Public Health
Regional Medical Programs* / economics
Regional Medical Programs* / organization & administration