| dc.creator |
Pokhrel, S |
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| dc.creator |
Quigley, MA |
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| dc.creator |
Fox-Rushby, J |
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| dc.creator |
McCormick, F |
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| dc.creator |
Williams, A |
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| dc.creator |
Trueman, P |
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| dc.creator |
Dodds, R |
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| dc.creator |
Renfrew, MJ |
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| dc.date |
2015-01-16T12:12:06Z |
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| dc.date |
2014-12-04 |
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| dc.date |
2015-01-16T12:12:06Z |
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| dc.date |
2014 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-25T14:53:37Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-25T14:53:37Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Arch Dis Child, 2014 |
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| dc.identifier |
1468-2044 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2014/11/12/archdischild-2014-306701 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9769 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306701 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/172680 |
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| dc.description |
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. |
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| dc.description |
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. |
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| dc.language |
ENG |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.relation |
Arch Dis Child |
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| dc.relation |
Arch Dis Child |
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| dc.subject |
Breastfeeding |
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| dc.subject |
Cost of illness |
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| dc.subject |
Formula feeding |
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| dc.subject |
Infants |
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| dc.subject |
Maternal breast cancer |
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| dc.title |
Potential economic impacts from improving breastfeeding rates in the UK |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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