ACE - Obesity Project Report

This is the final report of a two-year project funded by the Victorian Department of Human Services that assessed the cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent childhood obesity in Australia (ACE-Obesity project). The work was guided by a working group consisting of key stakeholders who selected 13 interventions for evaluation. The health benefit was measured as savings in Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) using the best available evidence. The purpose of the study is to inform health promotion practice and policy.

The 13 interventions included:

1. Active After School Communities program
2. Multi-faceted school-based education program to improve nutrition and increase physical activity with an active PE component
3. Multi-faceted school-based education program to improve nutrition and increase physical activity without an active PE component
4. Multi-faceted school-based program targeted at overweight and obese children
5. School-based education program to reduce consumption of carbonated (fizzy) drinks
6. School-based education program to reduce TV viewing
7. TravelSMART Schools
8. Walking School Bus
9. Reduction of TV advertising of high fat and/or high sugar foods and drinks to children (up to 14 years)
10. Family-based GP program for overweight and moderately obese children
11. Family-based targeted program for obese children
12. Orlistat therapy for obese adolescents
13. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for morbidly obese adolescents

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ACE - Obesity: Assessing Cost-effectiveness of obesity interventions in children and adolescents - Summary of Results (341kb, pdf)

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