Author, as appears in the article.: Concsa, Marta; Llaurado, Elisabct; Actives-Martins, Magaly; Morina, David; de Sola-Morales, Oriol; Giralt, Montse; Tarro, Lucia; Sola, Rosa
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: ACEVES MARTINS, MAGALY / Giralt Batista, Montserrat / Giralt Esteve, Mireia / Llauradó Calero, Eudald / Llauradó Ribé, Elisabet / Solà Alberich, Rosa Maria / Tarro Sánchez, Lucía
Keywords: School-based intervention Reduce Prevention Overweight Interventions Economic-evaluation Cost-effectiveness Childhood obesity
Abstract: The cost-effectiveness of childhood obesity prevention interventions is critical for their sustained implementation. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the Educació en Alimentació (EdAl) program, a school-based intervention for reducing obesity.Total EdAl program implementation costs and per-child costs were estimated. Cost-effectiveness, defined using the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), was estimated as the difference between the intervention and control group costs divided by the obesity-related outcome effects for boys (avoided cases of obesity, obesity prevalence, body mass index [BMI], and BMI z-score units) for each group. As a significant difference (4.39%) in the reduction of obesity prevalence between the intervention and control groups was observed for boys in the EdAl program, the data were calculated only for boys.The intervention cost was 24,246.53 € for 1,550 children (15.64 €/child/3 years) or 5.21 €/child/year. The ICERs/boy were 968.66 € to avoid one case of obesity, 3.6 € to reduce the obesity prevalence by 1%, 44.68 € to decrease BMI by one unit, and 65.16 € to reduce the BMI z-score by one unit.The cost of reducing the obesity prevalence in boys by 4.39% was 5.21 €/child/year, half the cost proposed by the Spanish Health Ministry, indicating that the EdAl program is cost-effective.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Public, environmental & occupational health Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar Geociências Epidemiology Enfermagem Educação física Ciências biológicas iii Biotecnología
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 09175040
Author's mail: elisabet.llaurado@urv.cat eudald.llaurado@estudiants.urv.cat montse.giralt@urv.cat rosa.sola@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-7439-9531 0000-0002-7073-577X 0000-0002-8359-235X
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/28/12/28_JE20170111/_article
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Epidemiology. 28 (12): 477-481
APA: Concsa, Marta; Llaurado, Elisabct; Actives-Martins, Magaly; Morina, David; de Sola-Morales, Oriol; Giralt, Montse; Tarro, Lucia; Sola, Rosa (2018). Cost-Effectiveness of the EdAl (Educació en Alimentació) Program: A Primary School-Based Study to Prevent Childhood Obesity.. Journal Of Epidemiology, 28(12), 477-481. DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20170111
Article's DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20170111
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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