Potential health and economic impact of achieving Kenya's overweight and obesity reduction target: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Kenya has adopted the WHO target of halting the rise of overweight, including obesity, by 2025. This paper assesses the potential impact of achieving the set target on health, healthcare cost and productivity.

Methods

We used a proportional multistate life table model (Kenya Obesity Model) to simulate the 2019 population of Kenya over their lifetime. We compared a scenario in which body mass index (BMI) distributions stabilise in 2025 against one whose BMI distributions stabilise in 2044, and quantified changes in disease-specific health outcomes, healthcare costs and productivity. We searched the literature to identify the best estimates of the total and disease-specific healthcare costs in Kenya. We used the Human Capital Approach to estimate productivi

SUBMITTER: Wanjau MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812816 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature