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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Research Open Access The economics of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease – a systematic review of economic evaluations David LB Schwappach*†1,2, Till A Boluarte†2 and Marc Suhrcke†3 Address: 1Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction, Zurich, Switzerland, 2Department of Health policy, University Witten-Herdecke, Witten, Germany and 3WHO European Office for Investment for Health Development, Venice, Italy Email: David LB Schwappach* - David.Schwappach@isgf.unizh.ch; Till A Boluarte - Till.Boluarte@uni-wh.de; Marc Suhrcke - msu@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 14 May 2007 Received: 20 February 2007 Accepted: 14 May 2007 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2007, 5:5 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-5-5 This article is available from: /content/5/1/5 © 2007 Schwappach et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: In the quest for public and private resources, prevention continues to face a difficult challenge in obtaining tangible public and political support. This may be partly because the economic evidence in favour of prevention is often said to be largely missing. The overall aim of this paper is to examine whether economic evid