Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions in Australia
2019
This study examined the cost-effectiveness of community-based obesity prevention interventions (CBIs) consisting of strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity for Australian children aged between 5-18 years.
A multiple cohort Markov model that simulates diseases associated with overweight and obesity was used to estimate the health benefits, measured as health-adjusted life years (HALYs) and healthcare-related cost offsets from diseases averted due to exposure to the intervention. Health and cost outcomes were estimated over the lifetime of the target population.
The estimated net cost of implementing CBIs across all local government areas (LGAs) in Australia was AUD426M over 3 years. This resulted in 51,792 HALYs gained over the lifetime of the cohort. The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) was AUD8155 per HALY gained with a 95% probability of being cost-effective at a willingness to pay threshold of AUD50,000 per HALY.
Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions in Australia
Source:
Ananthapavan J, Nguyen PK, Bowe SJ et al. Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions in Australia. International Journal of Obesity 2019; 43: 1102-1112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-019-0341-0
Not open access.