Economic cost of inactivity
The purpose of this document is to provide physical activity practitioners, commissioners and policy makers with the key facts to help them build an economic argument for the need to decrease levels of physical inactivity within the population. This evidence briefing summarises the key facts on the total cost of disease to the NHS, the cost of treating individual cases with specific diseases and the cost of disease which can be attributed to physical inactivity.
Literatuurverwijzing: British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health (2013). Economic cost of inactivity.