New Imperial report on cost of chronic health and rise in diabetes, BBC Radio 4, 27 October 2005

Dr Rifat Atun, Director of Tanaka Business School's Centre for Health Management, comments on a new WHO report on chronic health.

BBC Radio 4 You and Yours Programme
27/10/05 at 12.30 hrs

New report examines the cost of chronic illness - and how the rise of diabetes has been overlooked

The World Health Organisation predicts rising numbers of premature deaths worldwide from diabetes. Desmond Johnson, Professor of Clinical Medicine at Imperial College London, Dr Joanne Epping-Jordan, co-author of the report and Dr Rifat Atun, the Director of Tanaka Business School's Centre of Health Management, give their views.

Rifat discusses the big economic threat that the sudden rise in diabetes represents, both in the direct cost of treatment, etc, that a country has to bear; and also issues such as lost productivity, as more workers take time off through illness.

For the full interview, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/listenagain/thursday.shtml