Php20: The Economic Burden of Physical Inactivity in Switzerland

Sports injuries: population based representative data on incidence, diagnosis, sequelae, and high risk groups

“…5 By the same token, health economy based cost benefit studies from the United States, Austria, and Switzerland show that inactive people generate 30-50% higher direct cost of illness than physically active people. [6][7][8] Sports injuries are a side effect of sporting activity. The extent to which they undermine the preventive potential of regular physical activity is largely unknown in Germany because of a hitherto deficient epidemiological database.…”