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dc.contributor.author | Pokhrel, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Quigley, MA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fox-Rushby, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | McCormick, F | - |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Trueman, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Dodds, R | - |
dc.contributor.author | Renfrew, MJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-16T12:12:06Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-04 | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-16T12:12:06Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Arch Dis Child, 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2044 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2014/11/12/archdischild-2014-306701 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9769 | - |
dc.description | This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. | - |
dc.description.abstract | RATIONALE: Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. OBJECTIVE: To calculate potential cost savings attributable to increases in breastfeeding rates from the National Health Service perspective. DESIGN AND SETTINGS: Cost savings focussed on where evidence of health benefit is strongest: reductions in gastrointestinal and lower respiratory tract infections, acute otitis media in infants, necrotising enterocolitis in preterm babies and breast cancer (BC) in women. Savings were estimated using a seven-step framework in which an incidence-based disease model determined the number of cases that could have been avoided if breastfeeding rates were increased. Point estimates of cost savings were subject to a deterministic sensitivity analysis. RESULTS: Treating the four acute diseases in children costs the UK at least £89 million annually. The 2009-2010 value of lifetime costs of treating maternal BC is estimated at £959 million. Supporting mothers who are exclusively breast feeding at 1 week to continue breast feeding until 4 months can be expected to reduce the incidence of three childhood infectious diseases and save at least £11 million annually. Doubling the proportion of mothers currently breast feeding for 7-18 months in their lifetime is likely to reduce the incidence of maternal BC and save at least £31 million at 2009-2010 value. CONCLUSIONS: The economic impact of low breastfeeding rates is substantial. Investing in services that support women who want to breast feed for longer is potentially cost saving. | en_US |
dc.language | ENG | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Breastfeeding | en_US |
dc.subject | Cost of illness | en_US |
dc.subject | Formula feeding | en_US |
dc.subject | Infants | en_US |
dc.subject | Maternal breast cancer | en_US |
dc.title | Potential economic impacts from improving breastfeeding rates in the UK | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306701 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Arch Dis Child | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Arch Dis Child | - |
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Appears in Collections: | Brunel OA Publishing Fund Health Economics Research Group (HERG) |
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