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01-12-2014 | COMMENTARY
The Brighton declaration: the value of non-communicable disease modelling in population health sciences
Authors:
Laura Webber, Oliver T. Mytton, Adam D. M. Briggs, James Woodcock, Peter Scarborough, Klim McPherson, Simon Capewell
Published in:
European Journal of Epidemiology
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Issue 12/2014
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Excerpt
The Brighton declaration arose out of a one day workshop held in Brighton in September 2013 as part of the Society for Social Medicine annual conference. The workshop convened UK based non-communicable disease modellers to discuss the challenges and opportunities for non-communicable disease modelling in the UK. The declaration describes the value and importance of non-communicable disease modelling, both for research and for informing health policy. The declaration also describes challenges and issues for non-communicable disease modelling. The declaration has been endorsed by many non-communicable disease modellers in the UK. …