ArticleHealth promotion international2013
The cost-effectiveness of a school-based smoking prevention program in India.
Article in Health promotion international, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Economic Evidence of Cardiovascular Interventions in India.Current cardiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Comprehensive league table of cost-utility ratios: A systematic review of cost-effectiveness evidence for health policy decisions in India.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Cost-effectiveness of interventions to control cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus in South Asia: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2018Pooled it
- Cost-effectiveness of tobacco control policies and programmes targeting adolescents: a systematic review.European journal of public health · 2018Pooled it
- Pooled it
- The cost-effectiveness of school-based interventions for chronic diseases: a systematic review.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2024Review
- Local Marketing of a National Texting-Based Smoking Cessation Program: Is It Cost Effective?Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Investing in non-communicable disease risk factor control among adolescents worldwide: a modelling study.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- The Economic Impact of Smoking and of Reducing Smoking Prevalence: Review of Evidence.Tobacco use insights · 2015Review
- The state of cost-utility analysis in India: A systematic review.Perspectives in clinical researchReview
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Abstract
Intervention programs aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth have been shown to be effective in curbing tobacco use onset and progression. However, the effects of even very successful tobacco prevention programs may not always impress policy-makers and lay audiences. Economic analysis potentially strengthens the case. In this paper, we evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a youth tobacco use prevention program which has been translated and implemented in India, a developing country. Although programs like these are inexpensive to implement in the USA, they are even less expensive in India due to low labor costs. Our results show that the costs per quality-adjusted life-year added, due to averted smoking, was $2057, even without including averted medical costs. If we ignore student time, cost-effectiveness improves by roughly 10%. To put the cost-effectiveness of this smoking prevention program into context, it is over 24 times more cost-effective than dialysis in the USA, which costs $50,000 for a life-year.
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