Cost-effectiveness of population-based, community, workplace and individual policies for diabetes prevention in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To analyse the cost-effectiveness of different interventions for Type 2 diabetes prevention within a common framework.

Methods

A micro-simulation model was developed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a range of diabetes prevention interventions including: (1) soft drinks taxation; (2) retail policy in socially deprived areas; (3) workplace intervention; (4) community-based intervention; and (5) screening and intensive lifestyle intervention in individuals with high diabetes risk. Within the model, individuals follow metabolic trajectories (for BMI, cholesterol, systolic blood pressure and glycaemia); individuals may develop diabetes, and some may exhibit complications of diabetes and related disorders, including cardiovascular disease, and eventually die. Lifetime he

SUBMITTER: Breeze PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5573930 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature