Kosten van preventie in Nederland 2003. Zorg voor euro's - 4

Preventive measures in the public health arena are carried out in numerous areas of policy such drinking-water, sewerage systems, road safety, smoking and employment conditions. Good quality, topical regulations taken up in these policy areas led in the 20th century to great improvements in public health in the Netherlands. The focus on research into costs and efficiency (cost-effectiveness) in healthcare is on the increase. The structural evaluations also make it easier to plan future healthcare provisions. Making choices about directions in policy and inter-sectoral discussion is becoming easier too. It is against this background that insights into the costs of preventive measures are lacking. Presented here then is a complete as possible overview of preventive measures, both inside and outside the public health arena, in which the costs per disease are broken down both for individual diseases and for age groups and gender