Valuing behavioral interventions for obesity reduction: A scoping review of economic models.

ABSTRACT: Policymakers require health economic modeling to guide their decision-making over the choice of interventions for obesity. This scoping review was undertaken to report on the health economic models in use for estimating the value of behavioral interventions (individual or population level) for obesity reduction. Electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, EconLit, and Web of Science) were searched for publications meeting inclusion criteria from January 2015 to May 2023. Seventy-three studies were included, using 44 health economic models between them. When considered against the expert recommendations for modeling of this type, only four models (9%) met all five key elements. The element most commonly unfulfilled was the use of a microsimulation modeling approach (41%, n = 18), follo

SUBMITTER: McLaughlin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11791378 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature