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Impact and cost-effectiveness of a universal strategy to promote physical activity in primary care

population-based Cohort study and Markov model

Background: This study aimed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of a universal strategy to promote physical activity in primary care.

Methods: Data were analysed for a cohort of participants from the general practice research database. Empirical estimates informed a Markov model that included five long-term conditions (diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, colorectal cancer and depression). Simulations compared an intervention promoting physical activity in healthy adults with standard care. The intervention effect on physical activity was from a meta-analysis of randomised trials. The annual cost of intervention, in the base case, was one family practice consultation per participant year. The primary outcome was net health benefit in quality adjusted life years (QALYs).

Conclusions: A universal strategy to promote physical activity in primary care has the potential to increase life years lived free from physical disease. There is only weak evidence that a universal intervention strategy might prove cost-effective.

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Martin Gulliford
Judith Charlton
Nawaraj Bhattarai
Christopher Charlton
Caroline Rudisill

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