Given that disability benefits account for around a quarter of the total social-security bill, substantial savings would be possible from focusing disability benefits on genuinely disabled people.

ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

Starting in 1965 Dr. Lester Breslow, a titan in the field of public health and the Dean of the UCLA School of Public Health, initiated a ground-breaking prospective study of the impact of health behaviors on disability and disease among 7, 000 people in Alameda County, California who were followed for a total of 35 years.

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