The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Ulf Gerdtham

Professor

Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Are lifestyle interventions in primary care cost-effective? - an analysis based on a markov model, differences-in-differences approach and the Swedish björknäs study.

Author

  • Sanjib Saha
  • Katarina Steen Carlsson
  • Ulf Gerdtham
  • Margareta K Eriksson
  • Lars Hagberg
  • Mats Eliasson
  • Pia Johansson

Summary, in English

Lifestyle interventions affect patients' risk factors for metabolic syndrome (MeSy), a pre-stage to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and related complications. An effective lifestyle intervention is the Swedish Björknäs intervention, a 3-year randomized controlled trial in primary care for MeSy patients. To include future disease-related cost and health consequences in a cost-effectiveness analysis, a simulation model was used to estimate the short-term (3-year) and long-term (lifelong) cost-effectiveness of the Björknäs study.

Department/s

  • Health Economics
  • Department of Economics
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Publication/Series

PLoS ONE

Volume

8

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Topic

  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Status

Published

Research group

  • Health Economics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1932-6203