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- Title: Costs of Implementing and Maintaining Comprehensive School Health: The Case of the Annapolis Valley Health Promoting Schools Program (Quantitative Research) (Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 297 KB
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Childhood overweight has become a major public health concern. In Canada, the prevalence of overweight in childhood has increased dramatically from 15% in 1977/78 to 26% in 2004. (1,2) School-aged children embodied the bulk of this increase as rates for children aged 2-5 remained relatively unchanged. (1) There is mounting evidence that childhood overweight persists into adulthood and is associated with a number of co-morbidities including type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease and some cancers, leading to a reduced life expectancy and quality of life. (3,4) The health care costs of overweight constitute a tremendous burden to society and are subject to sharp increases. (5) Direct health care costs associated with excess body weight in Canada were estimated to be $1.8 billion in 1997, (6) and the overall annual national costs (direct and indirect costs) to be $4.3 billion in 2001. (5) The health care cost of diabetes in Canada has been projected to nearly double between 2000 and 2016 from CAD $4.66 billion to about CAD $8.14 billion. (7) School-based programs have a great potential to prevent childhood overweight because they reach almost all children and at an early age. (8) Comprehensive school health (CSH) has been shown to be very effective in preventing overweight and obesity. (9) CSH is an internationally recognized framework for supporting both education and health in a planned, integrated and holistic way. (10,11) CSH is the preferred term by the Joint Consortium for School Health but is synonymous with Health Promoting Schools, the term most commonly used in Europe and Australia, and with Coordinated School Health, commonly used in the United States. (11) Few primary prevention programs have included economic evaluations, and to date, no studies have reported on the costs associated with implementing and maintaining CSH. (12-14)