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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 1183-1189Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab130
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- Alberta Innovates Collaborative Research and Innovative Opportunities Team grant [201300671]
- Murphy Family Foundation Chair in Early Life Interventions
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This study evaluated the economic implications of feasible, acceptable, and sustainable school-based health promotion programmes in Canada, finding that comprehensive school health programs were the most cost-effective and had the highest return on investment among the interventions studied.
Background: While school-based health prevention programmes are effective in addressing unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, little is known about their economic implications. We conducted an economic evaluation of the programmes that were previously identified as feasible, acceptable, and sustainable in the Canadian context. Methods: This study builds on a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of feasible, acceptable, and sustainable school-based health promotion programmes. A micro-simulation model incorporated intervention effects on multiple risk factors to estimate incremental cost-effectiveness and return on investment (ROI) of comprehensive school health (CSH), multicomponent, and physical education (PE) curriculum modification programmes. Cost-effectiveness was expressed as the programme costs below which the programme would be cost-effective at a CA$50 000 threshold level. Results: The estimated costs below which interventions were cost-effective per quality-adjusted life year gained were CA$682, CA$444, and CA$416 per student for CSH, multicomponent, and PE curriculum modification programmes, respectively. CSH programmes remained cost-effective per year of chronic disease prevented for costs of up to CA$3384 per student, compared to CA$1911 and CA$1987 for multicomponent and PE curriculum modification interventions, respectively. If the interventions were implemented at total discounted intervention costs of CA$100 per student, ROI through the avoidance of direct healthcare costs related to the treatment and management of chronic diseases would be 824% for CSH, 465% for multicomponent interventions, and 484% for PE curriculum modification interventions. Conclusions: Whereas each examined intervention types showed favourable economic benefits, CSH programmes appeared to be the most cost-effective and to have the highest ROI.
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