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Título: | Costs and benefits of a school-based health intervention in Portugal |
Autor(es): | Vieira, Margarida Carvalho, Graça Simões de |
Palavras-chave: | Cost-consequence analysis Intervention costs School-based intervention Childhood obesity |
Data: | 2019 |
Editora: | Oxford University Press |
Revista: | Health Promotion International |
Citação: | Vieira, M. & Carvalho, G.S (2019) Costs and benefits of a school-based health intervention in Portugal. Health Promotion International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day085 |
Resumo(s): | School-based programmes for preventing childhood obesity have been shown to be effective in improving eating habits and nutritional status, but few intervention programmes with a controlled design have included an economic evaluation. In this study, we conducted a cost-consequence analysis to evaluate the costs and the health benefits of the ‘Planning Health in School’ programme (PHS-pro) implemented in the Northern region of Portugal to 449 children of 10–14 years old. Previous study has showed that after PHS-pro, several anthropometric measures significantly improved in the intervention group (height, waist circumference and waist-height ratio) compared with the control group, followed by significant improvements on soft drinks, fruit and vegetables daily consumptions. Costs were estimated according the two phases of the programme: designing and preparation of schools, and school setting implementation, and included all the direct costs on human and material resources. PHS-pro total costs were estimated as 7915.53€/year with an intervention cost of 36.14€/year/child attending the programme. This is much lower than the direct costs for treating an obese adult in Portugal, which was calculated as 3849.15€/year. A scale-up costing projection for implementing the PHS-pro to a larger young population was estimated to be even lower: 18.18€/year/child. This cost-consequence analysis provided evidence that the PHS-pro was economically feasible especially if compared with the medical costs for treating adult obesity. The PHS-pro can be a beneficial investment and may give a promising contribution to addressing overweight over childhood and adolescence, which are developmental stages that determine adulthood chronic diseases. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/61153 |
DOI: | 10.1093/heapro/day085 |
ISSN: | 0957-4824 |
e-ISSN: | 1460-2245 |
Versão da editora: | https://academic.oup.com/heapro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/heapro/day085/5138277 |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso restrito autor |
Aparece nas coleções: | CIEC - Artigos (Papers) |
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