Journal article
The cost-effectiveness of Australia's active after-school communities program
ML Moodie, RC Carter, BA Swinburn, MM Haby
Obesity | Published : 2010
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.401
Abstract
The objective of this study was to assess from a societal perspective the cost-effectiveness of the Active After-school Communities (AASC) program, a key plank of the former Australian Government's obesity prevention program. The intervention was modeled for a 1-year time horizon for Australian primary school children as part of the Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Obesity (ACE-Obesity) project. Disability-adjusted life year (DALY) benefits (based on calculated effects on BMI post-intervention) and cost-offsets (consequent savings from reductions in obesity-related diseases) were tracked until the cohort reached the age of 100 years or death. The reference year was 2001, and a 3% discount rat..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Obesity (ACE-Obesity) project was funded by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services, Australia. We thank members of the ACE-Obesity Working Group for their input into the project: Michael Ackland (Deputy Chair), Bill Bellew, John Catford, Elizabeth Develin, Helen Egan, Bonnie Field, Tim Gill, John Goss, Robert Hall (Chair), Brian Harrison, Kellie-Ann Jolly, Mark Lawrence, Amanda Lee, Tony McBride, Karen McIntyre, Jan Norton, Anna Peeters, Theo Vos, Melissa Wake, Rowland Watson. We thank the officers of the Australian Active After-school Communities program, Australian Sports Commission, for their input. The opinions, analysis, and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services, the Victorian Minister for Health or the Government of Victoria.