How Is Scale Incorporated Into the Economic Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Obesity or to Improve Obesity-Related Risk Factors: A Systematic Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity prevention interventions commonly need to be implemented at scale, to address what is a significant population-level issue. While systematic reviews on the economic evidence for interventions preventing obesity or reducing obesity-related risk factors exist, to date there has been no empirical focus on the methods used to quantify the impacts of scale on intervention cost-effectiveness. This systematic scoping review aimed to synthesize the methods used to incorporate scale considerations and provide future directions for incorporating scale into economic evaluation of public health interventions.

Methods

A systematic search was undertaken by two reviewers using six databases in June 2023 to identify published economic evaluations of obesity prevention i

SUBMITTER: Dalton C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318913 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature