SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
A Systematic Review of Methods, Study Quality, and Results of Economic Evaluation for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Intervention.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Shared Determinants of Poor Sleep, Obesity and Adiposity in Adolescents Aged 8-18-Years: A Systematic Review.Journal of sleep research · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of economic evidence for community-based obesity prevention interventions in children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Methods for the economic evaluation of obesity prevention dietary interventions in children: A systematic review and critical appraisal of the evidence.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Economic Evaluations of Child Nutrition Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Quality Appraisal.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Economic evaluation of a multi-component obesity prevention intervention in Chinese primary schools.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
- Cost-Effectiveness and Long-Term Savings of the Bright Bodies Intervention for Childhood Obesity.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2023Trial
- Cost-Effectiveness of a School-and Family-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Programme in China: The "CHIRPY DRAGON" Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial.International journal of public health · 2021Trial
- Willingness to pay for measures to increase use of active school transport.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- How Is Scale Incorporated Into the Economic Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Obesity or to Improve Obesity-Related Risk Factors: A Systematic Scoping Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
- Preferences and willingness to pay for early childhood healthy lifestyle initiative outcomes: A discrete choice experiment.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Estimated Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of a Pediatric Weight Management Program.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of individual-level obesity treatment in paediatrics: A scoping review.Pediatric obesity · 2024Article
- The return on investment for the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity in China: a modelling study.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
- The long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions; how can we model behavior? A review.Health economics · 2023Review
- Psychiatric Disorders and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence-A Systematic Review of Cross-Sectional Studies.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Exploring the economics of public health intervention scale-up: a case study of the Supporting Healthy Image, Nutrition and Exercise (SHINE) cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Economic evaluation of a multi-strategy intervention that improves school-based physical activity policy implementation.Implementation science : IS · 2022Article
- Health Economic Aspects of Childhood Excess Weight: A Structured Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Methodological issues in economic evaluations of disease prevention and health promotion: an overview of systematic and scoping reviews.BMC public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
Many suggested policy interventions for childhood and adolescent obesity have costs and effects that fall outside the health care sector. These cross-sectorial costs and consequences have implications for how economic evaluation is applied and although previous systematic reviews have provided a summary of cost-effectiveness, very few have conducted a review of methods applied. We undertook this comprehensive review of economic evaluations, appraising the methods used, assessing the quality of the economic evaluations, and summarising cost-effectiveness. Nine electronic databases were searched for full-economic evaluation studies published between January 2001 and April 2017 with no language or country restrictions. 39 economic evaluation studies were reviewed and quality assessed. Almost all the studies were from Western countries and methods were found to vary by country, setting and type of intervention. The majority, particularly "behavioural and policy" preventive interventions, were cost-effective, even cost-saving. Only four interventions were not cost effective. This systematic review suggests that economic evaluation of obesity interventions is an expanding area of research. However, methodological heterogeneity makes evidence synthesis challenging. Whilst upstream interventions show promise, an expanded and consistent approach to evaluate cost-effectiveness is needed to capture health and non-health costs and consequences.
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