The main health impacts are premature mortality and productivity losses, followed by treatment costs.
Many patients, particularly those with other major conditions (often advanced diabetes), face special problems, including exposure to premature mortality.
Appropriate economic values for premature mortality would clearly be critical as well.
Two studies of very large cohorts of survivors have reported more premature mortality compared with the general population.
This term relates to the effect upon natural lifespan of a decrease in premature mortality.
As premature mortality decreases, he argues, more people will live to the limits of this natural lifespan.
The report concluded by saying that cigarette smoking, which killed almost 800,000 people a year, was the leading cause of premature mortality in the developed countries.
Save men's lives by reducing premature mortality of men and boys .
He also used his machine for the prediction of premature mortality.
The estimated cost in medical bills and premature mortality: $3.5 trillion.