Many obesity policy measures appear to be cost-effective for society
The recent MGI study [1] reported that almost all of the obesity policy interventions included in its economic analysis appeared to be highly cost-effective at the societal level—i.e. the health-care costs and productivity savings that accrue from reducing obesity through a specific intervention outweighed the direct investment required to deliver that intervention when assessed over the full lifetime of the target population.
Cost-effective interventions to reduce obesity in the UK
