An economic perspective on childhood obesity: Recent findings on cost of illness and cost effectiveness of interventions

John, Jürgen; Wolfenstetter, Silke B.; Wenig, Christina M.

doi:10.1016/j.nut.2011.11.016

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“…La mayoría de estudios relacionados con el costo de la enfermedad, demarcan su interés en macro-escenarios para obtener datos que revelen el estado actual del fenómeno y faciliten la toma de decisiones y la orientación de políticas económicas, sociales y sanitarias [29][30][31][32][33][34] , éste estudio permitió cuantificar hallazgos, revisar algunos aspectos cualitativos que reportan percepción de costos por parte de los usuarios 1 , generar una análisis que apoya la comunicación de un esfuerzo hasta ahora no abordado de los modelos, para comparar y medir tendencias, momentos, escenarios, estrategias de disminución de consumo o fortalecimiento de esfuerzos 35,36 .…”

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Carga financiera del cuidado del enfermo crónico en un grupo de familias en Guatemala

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Monroy²,

Vásquez³

2017

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RESUMENComo objetivo del trabajo, se planteó describir la carga financiera del cuidado del enfermo crónico en un grupo de familias en Guatemala, para ello se realizó un estudio descriptivo, de corte transversal que se desarrolló en 2014 como parte de un estudio multicéntrico. Se emplearon dos encuestas para la recolección de datos: Para caracterizar al grupo familiar la encuesta "GCPC-UN-D y para conocer el consumo real efectivo de las familias la encuesta "Costo financiero del cuidado de la Enfermedad crónica". Para analizar la carga financiera se empleó la Metodología CARACOLA. Los resultados revelaron que los costos propios de salud, seguidos por los de transporte, vivienda, comunicaciones y alimentos son los que en conjunto y en ese orden producen carga financiera familiar del cuidado del enfermo crónico. Se concluye que el consumo real efectivo de un grupo de familias en Guatemala asociado con el cuidado de un enfermo crónico, genera carga financiera elevada produciendo un impacto importante en la estabilidad familiar y dificulta aún más la experiencia de salud. Es clara la necesidad de incluir en las políticas públicas la forma de considerar y mitigar los costos del cuidado Palabras clave: Enfermedad crónica; Costo de enfermedad; Economía de la salud; Guatemala ABSTRACTThe aim of research was to describe and analyze the financial burden of family care of the chronically ill Guatemala. It was developed throught a descriptive, cross-sectional study that was development in 2014 as part of multicenter study. The Instruments "GCPC-UN-D" were used to characterize the subjects and the Survey Financial cost of chronic disease care, to identify the real effective household consumption. The financial burden attributable to family careRecibido en marzo 11 de 2016 Aceptado en junio 28 de 2016

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Carga financiera del cuidado del enfermo crónico en un grupo de familias en Guatemala

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2017

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“…Considering different cost components and age groups, most studies find excess healthcare costs for obese compared with normal-weight peers. However, the literature is inconclusive regarding the details of cost differentials, that is, the exact amount of excess costs of obese compared with normal-weight children [16]. Recent evidence confirms the impression that the amount of excess costs associated with obesity may depend on the age and sex of the population observed, as well as on the regarded cost component [23].…”

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“…Most of these studies have been published only since 2006; recent reviews of this literature have been provided by [15][16][17]. A few articles on this subject matter have analyzed German data.…”

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“…In their Cochrane review of 55 studies, Waters et al found not one study providing cost-effectiveness data on the evaluated interventions [34]. Two recent reviews covering preventive as well as therapeutic interventions for childhood obesity identified a total of 17 publications reporting results of economic evaluations of 20 different interventions in total, containing eight therapeutic and 12 preventive programs [15,16]. According to these findings, no single paper evaluating the cost-effectiveness implications of childhood obesity interventions in Germany had been published until October 2011.…”

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“…It is difficult to distill a synthesis of the findings of economic evaluations of preventive interventions for childhood obesity, as the studies did apply a broad range of different methodological approaches in terms of study design, time horizon, measurement of health outcomes and costing methodology (details on these issues including main results and short descriptions of the contents of the interventions analyzed can be found in tabular form in [16] and [17]). Perhaps the most important conclusion that can be drawn from the findings is the large variation in the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) for different interventions.…”

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As in most countries, overweight and obesity among children and adolescents have dramatically increased in Germany over the last two decades. This serious public-health challenge has stimulated many efforts to curb the pediatric obesity epidemic. In this article, the authors briefly describe these efforts and examine the role of health economics in informing German health policies and evaluating the outcomes of interventions aimed at reducing pediatric obesity. The findings indicate that the tools of health-economic analysis have rarely been used to guide the development of strategies to prevent pediatric obesity and to support decision-making on the use of the scarce resources available for preventive actions. The authors give some reasons why health economics has not been an important policy tool so far and make some recommendations for how this could be changed. Reasons impeding health economics playing a more important role in this area are the existence of many unsolved issues in the methods of health economic evaluation and large gaps in the knowledge base on the effectiveness of interventions. Nevertheless, these methods should be considered to be indispensible tools of health policy development. However, taking into account the broad range of political and societal concerns related to pediatric obesity, decision-making in this area will ultimately rest on a process of deliberate thinking integrating different perspectives among, which health economics will be one.

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An economic perspective on childhood obesity: Recent findings on cost of illness and cost effectiveness of interventions

Cited by 69 publications

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