Open AccessHolding smokers accountable for heart disease costs.
Author(s) -
Wayne Kaesemeyer
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.90.2.1029
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , disease , cigarette smoking , accountability , intensive care medicine , environmental health , cardiology , political science , law
This article discusses escalating health care costs in terms of their principal component, cardiovascular diseases. The role of cigarette smoking is highlighted throughout. A Smoker's Accountability Trust is proposed for the prevention of nonfatal myocardial infarction. It is demonstrated that this approach can contain costs by controlling the root causes of their acceleration.
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