Hi Sarah
This isn't about cost-effectiveness exactly, but more about effectiveness in general, which I guess are related.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics looked at this in relation to alcohol consumption in 2007. It drew on a major WHO-sponsored study called 'Alcohol: No ordinary commodity - Research and public policy' which compared public health measures used in different countries across Europe (I think).
The study emphasised the effectiveness of increasing taxes, restricting hours and days of sale and the density of outlets that sell alcohol, and possibly of banning advertising, whereas it found little evidence in support of the effectiveness of education about alcohol in schools, and evidence for a lack of effectiveness concerning public service messages and warning labels.
This was the basis for the Council recommending the Government use more coercive measures to tackle excessive alcohol consumption than they were currently using at the time. See p 113 of our report: www.nuffieldbioethics.org/sites/default/files/Public%20health%20-%20ethical%20issues.pdf
The full WHO report reference is Babor T, Caetano R, Casswell S et al. (2003) Alcohol: No ordinary commodity - Research and public policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Catherine
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Hi Psci-commers
I am looking for any research that has been done on the cost-effectiveness
of education vs. legislation on changing behaviour.
It is to support some work I am doing some work for the UN/FAO on climate
change and I would have thought that surely educating people (especially
young people) would be more cost effective than bringing in laws and
creating new infrastructure to force people to comply...but maybe not? Does
anyone know of any research in this area? I guess it needn't necessarily be
on climate change - maybe similar research has been done on other public
health issues like smoking or healthy eating?
Any suggestions from the collective Psci-com brain would be welcome
Thanks
Sarah
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