Tackling of unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and obesity: health effects and cost-effectiveness.
By M. Cecchini, F. Sassi, Jeremy A Lauer, Y. Lee, V. Guajardo-Barrón, D. Chisholm. The Lancet, 2010
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The obesity epidemic is spreading to low-income and middle-income countries as a result of new dietary habits and sedentary ways of life, fuelling chronic diseases and premature mortality. In this report we present an assessment of public health strategies designed to tackle behavioural risk factors for chronic diseases that are closely linked with obesity, including aspects of diet and physical inactivity, in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa. England was included for comparative purposes. Several population-based prevention policies can be expected to generate substantial health gains while entirely or largely paying for themselves through future reductions of health-care expenditures. These strategies include health information and communication strategies that improve population awareness about the benefits of healthy eating and physical activity; fiscal measures that increase the price of unhealthy food content or reduce the cost of healthy foods rich in fibre; and regulatory measures that improve nutritional information or restrict the marketing of unhealthy foods to children. A package of measures for the prevention of chronic diseases would deliver substantial health gains, with a very favourable cost-effectiveness profile.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Behaviour change theory and evidence: a presentation to Government (2013, background): “Recent developments in research on behaviour change have identified highly cost-effective interventions tackling unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, obesity, smoking and salt reduction (Asaria, Chisholm, Mathers, Ezzati, & Beaglehole, 2007 ; Cecchini et al, 2010 ; WHO, 2003 ).”
- Behavioural Insights and (Un)healthy Dietary Choices: a Review of Current Evidence (2018, background): “…previous work on behaviourally based policies in health and food choice, both academic (e.g. Brambila-Macias et al. 2011; Capacci et al. 2012; Cecchini et al. 2010; Cohen et al. 2016; Hawkes et al. 2015; Just and Payne 2009; Loewenstein 2012; Roberto 2015; Schwartz et al. 2017) and…”
- Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health? (2011, background): “a review of measures to tackle obesity has concluded that pricing interventions and regulation of food labelling and marketing to children are likely to produce the largest health gains in the shortest times”
- Eating out of home and its association with dietary intake: a systematic review of the evidence (2012, background): “The introduction of fiscal measures to discourage consumption of fat-rich foods (45) is therefore likely to affect the consumption of OH foods, particularly in higher socioeconomic groups.”