Investing in a healthy lifestyle strategy: is it worth it?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In Quebec, various actors fund activities aimed at increasing physical activity, improving eating habits and reducing smoking. The objective was to evaluate how effective does the healthy lifestyle habits promotion (HLHP) strategy need to be to make to offset its costs.

Methods

First, we built the logic model of the HLHP strategy. We then assessed the strategy's total cost as well as the direct health care expenditures associated with lifestyle-related risk factors (smoking, physical inactivity, insufficient intake of fruits and vegetables, obesity and overweight). Finally, we estimated the break-even point beyond which the economic benefits of the HLHP strategy would outweigh its costs.

Results

The HLHP strategy cost for 2010-2011 was estimated at $110 mil

SUBMITTER: Benmarhnia T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5288452 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature