The Economic Case for Eating Disorders Prevention and Early Detection: A Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Six Intervention Strategies


dc.contributorNational Eating Disorders Foundation
dc.contributor.authorWright, Davene
dc.contributor.otherBoston Children's Hospital
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-25T21:12:03Z
dc.descriptionScaling up eating disorders prevention strategies for population-wide impact requires the field to adopt a new and concerted focus on policy translation research. Decades of research have been done to identify what works to prevent and treat eating disorders. However, there has been little to no investment in research seeking to identify which eating disorders prevention and treatment strategies provide the best value to society given the limited public health resources available. Economic evaluations identifying the best value in eating disorders prevention are critically needed to inform evidence-based policy decisions. The study goal is to conduct a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of six intervention strategies to advance primary and secondary prevention of eating disorders. Members of the research team completed preliminary economic analyses of interventions for primary prevention (a school-based healthy eating curriculum) and secondary prevention (school-based eating disorder screening). Findings from these studies serve as the basis for the planned research and are included in the comparative analysis. New economic analyses of four additional strategies that have been proposed to advance primary and secondary prevention were conducted. The overarching aim is to estimate the potential reductions in morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs due to prevention of eating disorders as a result of the six interventions selected for this study.
dc.description.abstractScaling up eating disorders prevention strategies for population-wide impact requires the field to adopt a new and concerted focus on policy translation research.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14642/866
dc.publisherPEDSnet
dc.relation.isreferencedbyRodriguez PJ, Ward ZJ, Long MW, Austin SB, Wright DR. February 2021. "Applied Methods for Estimating Transition Probabilities from Electronic Health Record Data." *Med Decis Making*. 41(2):143-152. DOI: [10.1177/0272989X20985752](doi.org/10.1177/0272989X20985752)
dc.rightsa CC-BY 4.0 Attribution license.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectPEDSnet Data Source
dc.subjectPrivate Foundation Grants
dc.subject.meshHealth Policy
dc.subject.meshFeeding and Eating Disorders
dc.subject.meshMental Disorders
dc.subject.meshPrimary Prevention
dc.subject.meshPsychiatry and Psychology
dc.titleThe Economic Case for Eating Disorders Prevention and Early Detection: A Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Six Intervention Strategies
dc.title.alternative2015.WRID.PF.SCH
dspace.entity.typeStudy
local.admin.notehttps://atlassian.chop.edu/jira/browse/PMO-71
local.contributor.siteLeadSeattle Children's Hospital
project.endDate2017
project.startDate2015
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