Nutrition Economics: Celebrating Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

In some ways, economists and physicians make uneasy partners in the great enterprise of health economics. Economists ’ language is of constraints, budgets, costs, trade-offs, and optimization, whereas physicians focus on the science and art of healing. However, economists share much in common with evolutionary biologists and anthropologists working in the field of human nutrition. Evolutionary biologists talk of organisms facing hard constraints (“energy budgets”) and, in the case of humans, of the “expense” of running large brains (14.6 watts).
Source: Value in Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Themed Section: Nutrition Economics Source Type: research