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The social cost of cold homes in an English city: developing a transferable policy tool

Author(s) -

Bernard Stafford

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdu053

Subject(s) - social cost , public economics , psychological intervention , health care , environmental health , public health , social determinants of health , economic cost , health policy , mental health , business , medicine , actuarial science , economic growth , economics , nursing , psychiatry , neoclassical economics

Although there is substantial epidemiological evidence implicating cold homes in death and morbidity, evidence for the UK on the nature and scale of the costs involved is fragmentary. Policy making in this area is thus not well-informed of the benefit of interventions which arises in the form of costs averted.

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