Economic evaluation of vitamin D and calcium food fortification for fracture prevention in Germany

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1874-1883

  Sandmann, Arne ^a   Amling, Michael ^a   Barvencik, Florian ^a   König, Hans Helmut ^a   Bleibler, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost savings; Deficiency; Economic evaluation; Food fortification; Fracture prevention; Nutrition policy; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

AGED; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FORTIFIED FOOD; FRACTURE; GERMANY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; FRACTURES, BONE; GERMANY; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VITAMIN D; VITAMINS;

EID: 84947125190     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980015003171     Document Type: Article

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