Shape Up Somerville's return on investment: Multi-group exposure generates net-benefits in a child obesity intervention.

ABSTRACT: Community-based interventions may reduce and prevent childhood obesity by transforming the environments in which children live, learn, and play through a series of interventions implemented throughout the community that encourage healthy behaviors. While empirical support is building for the effectiveness of such interventions, little is known about the economic costs and benefits of community-wide childhood obesity interventions. This study examined whether the benefits of a community-wide, child-focused, obesity prevention intervention, Shape Up Somerville: Eat Smart Play Hard (SUS), exceeded its costs by estimating its return on investment. The SUS intervention study occurred in Somerville, Massachusetts (and in two additional geographic areas, which were the study's control group) duri

SUBMITTER: Coffield E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706678 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature