ICES research video series: Doug Manuel on unhealthy behaviour costs

Unhealthy behaviours and socioeconomic barriers together contribute to 37 per cent of Ontario’s health care costs, at a burden of $134 billion over 10 years. However, healthy living improvements such as smoking cessation programs saved 1.9 per cent of those total costs in that period, or $4.9 billion. The researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa say that these findings could provide Ontario with a road map for...