在美国各地的大型快餐连锁店进行卡路里标签的成本效益
Roxanne Dupuis1, Jason P Block2, Jessica L Barrett1
1Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
American journal of preventive medicine
|August 16, 2023
概括
美国快餐连锁店的卡路里标签可以节省成本,预防肥胖和节省医疗保健费用. 这种公共卫生干预对所有人口群体都有好处,证明了它的价值.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 预防肥胖 预防肥胖
背景情况:
- 自2018年以来,美国的大型连锁餐厅在标准菜单项目上标记卡路里含量已被强制要求.
- 评估这项公共卫生政策的成本效益对于了解其对社会影响至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估美国大型快餐连锁店实施的卡路里标签的成本效益.
- 预测卡路里标签的长期健康和经济效益.
主要方法:
- 用一种修改后的社会视角来评估国家卡路里标签的实施.
- 儿童肥胖干预成本效益研究 (COI-CES) 显微模拟模型预测了10年 (2018-2027) 的影响.
- 来自6700多万快餐交易 (2015-2019) 的数据为卡路里消耗和肥胖发病率的预测提供了信息.
主要成果:
- 预计卡路里标签可以节省成本,估计每1美元用于实施的每1美元的社会回报为22.60美元.
- 预计该干预措施仅在2027年就能预防55万例肥胖病例,其中包括41,500例儿童肥胖病例.
- 在所有种族,种族和收入群体中都观察到好处,这表明了公平的影响.
结论:
- 美国大型快餐连锁店的卡路里标签是改善长期人口健康的成本节约策略.
- 这种已经实施的低成本干预措施为公众健康带来了显著的好处.
- 该政策在不同的人口群体的肥胖预防方面表现出有效性.
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