Establishing a method to estimate the cost-effectiveness of a kindergarten-based, family-involved intervention to prevent obesity in early childhood. The ToyBox-study

摘要: Overweight and obesity in children are recognized as a major health problem. The ToyBox-intervention was developed with the aim of preventing pre-schoolers. Because it is increasingly important to inform policy makers not only on effects prevention interventions, but also their costs cost-effectiveness, our purpose establish method estimate cost-effectiveness ToyBox-intervention. In order long-term impact societal costs, extrapolations intervention effect will be conducted predict children's weight status (based body mass index) at adult age. Effects prevalence obesity-related complications modelled through Markov model, total time horizon 70 years cycle length 1 year. model six European countries participating ToyBox-intervention, based country-specific economic epidemiological data. This study describes methodological rationale implementation an analytic examine for countries, decision-makers value money this