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Weight Loss Drugs arent “the answer”

Sheffield DPH

Do Health Economics 101 and read the TA, section 4 esp the discrepancy between manufacturers model assumptions vs committee central base case 3. likely to widen health inequalities. It will therefore be important to assess the potential impact on health inequalities. ICER in the order of £20k / QALY.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

“Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. ASH I would figure will be full of this stuff. Long term trend def hasn’t happened by accident.