US Bone & Joint Decade

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KEY GOALS

Keep People moving to reduce the Burden and Cost of Musculo-skeletal Disorders
to individuals, Carers and Society

Raise Awareness of the Growing Burden of Musculo-Skeletal Disorders on Society


Strategy

to show the current prevalence, incidence and burden of musculo-skeletal disorders and how they translate in terms of financial costs

to collate and structure existing data on international basis and relate to financial costs by the Bone and Joint Monitor Project.

to show the predicted increase in musculoskeletal disorders by the year 2010 and relate to financial costs.

to show the difference the Bone and Joint Decade could make either by incidence or cost

to communicate the results of the Monitor Project and the Bone and Joint Decade to national decision makers in order to achieve the BJD target

to reduce the burden of musculoskeletal disorders to society by shifting indirect to direct health care costs