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  • A review of the cost-effectiveness of face-to-face behavioural interventions for smoking, physical activity, diet and alcohol

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    Author(s)
    Gordon, L.
    Graves, N.
    Hawkes, A.
    Eakin, E.
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Gordon, Louisa
    Year published
    2007
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    Abstract
    Objective: To assess the evidence for the cost-effectiveness of health behaviour interventions that address the major behavioural risk factors for chronic disease, including smoking, physical inactivity, poor diet, and alcohol misuse. Methods: Medical and economic databases were searched for relevant economic evaluations. Studies were critically appraised using a published 35-point checklist, and the results are described using a narrative approach, noting methodological limitations. The review included 64 studies from 1995-2005, including 17 reports on multiple behaviour interventions. Results: There was considerable ...
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    Objective: To assess the evidence for the cost-effectiveness of health behaviour interventions that address the major behavioural risk factors for chronic disease, including smoking, physical inactivity, poor diet, and alcohol misuse. Methods: Medical and economic databases were searched for relevant economic evaluations. Studies were critically appraised using a published 35-point checklist, and the results are described using a narrative approach, noting methodological limitations. The review included 64 studies from 1995-2005, including 17 reports on multiple behaviour interventions. Results: There was considerable variation among the studies by target populations, intervention components, primary outcomes, and economic methods, but the reported incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were consistently low (e.g.5E14,000 per quality-adjusted life-year gained for smoking-cessation programmes in 2006 Euros) as compared to certain preventive pharmaceutical and invasive interventions. Interventions targeting high-riskpopulation subgroups were relatively better value for money as compared to those targeting general populations. Discussion: In general, the results of this review demonstrate favourable cost-effectiveness for smoking interventions, physical activity interventions and multiple behaviour interventions in high-risk groups. Although alcohol and dietary interventions appeared to be economically favourable, it is difficult to draw conclusions because of the variety in study outcomes. However, methodological limitations weaken the generalizability of findings, and suggest that the results of any given study should be considered carefully when being used to inform resource allocation.
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    Journal Title
    Chronic Illness
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395307081732
    Copyright Statement
    L. Gordon et al, A review of the cost-effectiveness of face-to-face behavioural interventions for smoking, physical activity, diet and alcohol, Chronic Illness, 3 (2), 101–129, 2007. Copyright 2007 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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    Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Clinical Sciences
    Public Health and Health Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/38845
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