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ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13052-023-01424-9
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Cost-effectiveness; Childhood overweight and obesity; Adolescence overweight and obesity; Primary prevention
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This systematic review examines the cost-effectiveness of primary prevention programs on childhood obesity. Ten studies were included and the majority of them showed positive economic outcomes. There is a need to increase consistency and homogeneity among different studies.
Childhood obesity is increasing all over the world. It is associated with a reduction in quality of life and a relevant burden on society costs. This systematic review deals with the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of primary prevention programs on childhood overweight/obesity, in order to benefit from cost-effective interventions.We screened and evaluated all the studies with a cost-effectiveness analysis on childhood obesity primary prevention program by PUBMED and Google Scholar, using inclusion and exclusion criteria. The quality of the studies was assessed by Drummond's checklist.Ten studies were included. Two of them examined the cost-effectiveness of community-based prevention programs, four focused only on school-based programs while four more studies examined both community-based and school-based programs. The studies were different in terms of study design, target population, health and economic outcomes. Seventy per cent of the works had positive economic results.The majority of the studies showed effective economic outcomes applying primary prevention programs on childhood obesity. It is important to increase homogeneity and consistency among different studies.
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