Cost-Utility Analyses of Interventions to Promote Physical Activity

ISBN-13: 9783659184659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 76 str.

Gary Ginsberg; Elliot Rosenberg

Opis

Physical inactivity (sedentariness) is a serious risk factor for many chronic diseases. Primary preventive interventions based on exercise prescriptions, patient counseling, pedometer use and mass media campaigns, supplied additional quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) at no additional net cost, and thus were cost-saving in an Israeli health care setting. Internet-based campaigns, community programs to increase pedometer use and joint mass-media/community activity campaigns were also cost-saving. Transport programs to encourage walking, paid media advertisements, public relations events with worksite, church, and local organizations, exposure to dedicated websites, supervised group exercise classes, and GP-delivered exercise advice were found to be very cost-effective. In addition, many tertiary interventions assessed for patients with coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis were either cost-saving or very cost-effective. Adopting a variety of these cost-saving or very cost-effective interventions would enable countries to decrease sedentariness, and in consequence reduce health service costs and productivity losses due to absenteeism and lower productivity.

O autorze

Born in UK. Attained DrPH from UNC. Worked for WHO in Geneva. Currently Director of Medical Technology Assessment Sector of the Israeli Ministry of Health. Specialises in evaluating health care interventions using cost-utility analysis. Many recommendations (from his 90+ publications) have been implemented and resulted in the saving of many lives.