Integrating economics into the rationale for multisectoral action on obesity

Ellis, Vivian L.; Milliken, Olga

doi:10.26633/rpsp.2018.58

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“…In the process of developing intervention and research projects, early involvement by economists and other social scientists is needed in order to collect relevant economic data and ensure rigorous economic analysis. Table 3 summarizes two things: 1) gaps in current methods and evidence that impede the development of comprehensive investment cases for obesity prevention and control and 2) ways forward (8, 42, 56, 63).…”

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“…Economic analyses can assess whether a policy response is required from the efficiency perspective. For example, the analyses can identify market failures in efficient resource allocation, as well as whether such failures are amenable to intervention (8). Further, economic evaluation, both prospective and experiential, can inform on a range of interventions.…”

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“…Once the decision to intervene in order to correct market inefficiencies is made (8), policymakers need a list of interventions to choose from to create a package of measures. Such interventions have to be both effective and provide good value for money (be efficient) in a particular context.…”

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Development of an investment case for obesity prevention and control: perspectives on methodological advancement and evidence

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2018

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Review Suggested citationMilliken OV, Ellis VL, Development of an investment case for obesity prevention and control: perspectives on methodological advancement and evidence. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2018;42:e62. https://doi.org/10. 26633/RPSP.2018.62 As the obesity epidemic has been spreading rapidly across the Americas, national governments and regional and international organizations have called for action from the whole of society (1-4). To answer these calls, jurisdictions are seeking comprehensive investment cases that would articulate the benefits and costs of an intervention strategy across various economic actors and the factors that could affect its implementation. For example, the United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases has been working with countries around the globe to prepare investment cases for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors (5).An investment case presents reasoning for an action and includes a strategy to achieve a stated objective. Drawing from recent efforts to formulate investment cases (5-7), we find that a public health investment case generally includes six steps: 1) describing the problem within a given country, including determinants and risk factors and public health and economic impacts; 2) identifying effective, feasible, and locally relevant interventions for analysis; 3) providing analysis of the costs versus benefits of intervening, and identifying synergies among interventions; 4) building a package of interventions based on the second and third steps as well as other criteria such as distributional consequences and acceptability among stakeholders; 5) identifying the funding requirements and finding resources; and 6) developing a detailed plan for implementation and evaluation of results. Figure 1 summarizes this process.The objective of this paper is to discuss how various economic methods for valuing costs and benefits can be applied to obesity-targeted interventions (the third step listed above). The paper also summarizes major evidence towards the development of an investment case for obesity prevention and control in line with the third and fourth steps. ABSTRACT

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“…As discussed by McFadden et al, 20 how perception of an individual is being made after experiencing the situation and how an individual processes that information result in choices. It is unknown, however, how drivers process the information of vehicle malfunctions based on the situation at hand, which could be largely related to drivers' characteristics and some other nondrivers' attributes.…”

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Modeling factors to various drivers' actions due to vehicle malfunctions, the integrated latent class and latent variable model

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2022

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It is known that how individuals perceive the situation result in choices. However, it is unknown, how drivers process the information of vehicle malfunctions based on the situation at hand. In this study, we only considered drivers' actions in cases where vehicles had some forms of malfunction at the time of the crash. Also due to endogeneity bias, or aggregation of the error term, we did not include the vehicle malfunction directly in our model. In addition, we used the latent variable (LV) for class allocation. Although the latent class model considering latent variable (LCLV) is not comparable with other considered models, by means of log likelihood, the results expanded our understanding regarding the indirect impact of an indicator of vehicle malfunction by means of latent variable on drivers' actions. Due to inclusion of latent variables in both, the indicator and the choice models, the relationship between those two models could be revealed based on the impacts of the latent variables. It was found that, for instance, the latent variable, which decreases the likelihood of driving vehicles with brake defect, at the same time increases taking driver action of speeding. Or female drivers are less likely to be involved in speeding driving actions before crashes due to various vehicles malfunctions. Driving under the influence of drug or alcohol or being under emotional conditions were some of the factors impacting various drivers actions. This is the earliest study implemented the technique in the context of traffic safety.

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Integrating economics into the rationale for multisectoral action on obesity

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Development of an investment case for obesity prevention and control: perspectives on methodological advancement and evidence

Development of an investment case for obesity prevention and control: perspectives on methodological advancement and evidence

Modeling factors to various drivers' actions due to vehicle malfunctions, the integrated latent class and latent variable model

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