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Dr Seamus Kent is a Senior Researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. His research interests are centred obesity, chronic disease, economic modelling, and the use of large cohort and linked electronic health record data.
Title: Food on prescription: should total diet replacement programmes be provided by the NHS?
Abstract: Obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in recent decades. Despite the widespread recognition of its impacts on people’s health and on healthcare services, there is a paucity of scalable interventions to treat obesity. Total diet replacement (TDR) programmes, offering low- or very-low calorie diets, have emerged as candidate interventions. Two recent clinical trials demonstrated large reductions in weight at 12 months and, in those with recent-onset type-2 diabetes, substantial disease remission. In this seminar Dr Kent will present the first cost-effectiveness analysis of a TDR programme in routine healthcare settings and will also discuss wider issues in the economic modelling of obesity.
- Hosted by
- Dr Graham Scotland
- Venue
- Rm1:029, Polwarth Building