Better than a cure

Emma Stone, writing on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's blog, considers the cost and value of low-level preventive support, particularly as regards support for older people. The blog is prompted by the Scottish Finance Committee's inquiry into preventative spending, oral evidence session for which will take place this autumn. An article in the latest issue of the Journal of Public Health asks some difficult questions about the cost-effectiveness of prevention: Lifestyle intervention: from cost savings to value for money.