A mass media programme to prevent smoking among adolescents: costs and cost effectiveness.
A mass media programme to prevent smoking among adolescents: costs and cost effectiveness.
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预防青少年吸烟的大众媒体计划:成本和成本效益。
DOI:
10.1136/tc.6.3.207
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发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Detsky,AS
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作者:
Secker-Walker,RH;Worden,JK;Holland,RR;Flynn,BS;Detsky,AS
OBJECTIVETo examine costs and cost-effectiveness ratios of a four-year mass media programme previously shown to prevent the onset of smoking among adolescents.DESIGNA matched control design.SETTINGTwo cities in Montana, one in New York and one in Vermont, USA.SUBJECTSStudents in grades 10-12 (ages 15-18).INTERVENTIONA four-year mass media campaign to prevent the onset of smoking.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESCost per student potentially exposed to the mass media campaign; cost per student smoker potentially averted; and cost per life-year gained. Cost estimates were also made for a similar campaign that would be broadcast nationally in the United States.RESULTSIn 1996 dollars, the cost of developing and broadcasting the mass media campaign was 759,436,andthecostperstudentpotentiallyexposedtothecampaign(n=18,600)was 41. The cost per student smoker averted (n= 1023) was 754(95%confidenceinterval(CI)= 531-1296).Thecostperlife-yeargaineddiscountedat3%overthelifeexpectancyforyoungadultsmokerswas 696 (95% CI= 445- 1269). The estimated cost of developing and broadcasting a similar four-year mass media campaign in all 209 American media markets would be approximately 84.5million,atacostof 8 per student potentially exposed to a national campaign, 162perstudentsmokeraverted,and 138 (95% CI= 88- 252) per life-year gained.CONCLUSIONEstimates of the cost-effectiveness ratios of this mass media campaign in preventing the onset of smoking showed it to be economically attractive and to compare favourably with other preventive and therapeutic strategies.