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Public Health: Investment Returns

Asked by Helen MorganLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 5 November 2024UIN 12176

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the report entitled Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review, published in March 2017. .

Answered by Andrew Gwynne

We agree with the overall systematic review findings that local and national preventative public health interventions can be highly cost effective. The systematic review sets out analysis and evidence which has informed the Department’s own analysis.

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