Health Economics: Application and Policy

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HEALTH ECONOMICS: APPLICATION AND POLICY
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Introduction
Obesity is a major factor in present situation that affects the physical body of people
around the world. The Obesity among the children and the adolescents are the factors that affect
the healthy living practices of the children and also leads to several chronic diseases. The factor
of the body mass index (BMI) of the children of school can be an effective factor for the
treatment of the disease as the early detection would lead to a proper assessment of the disease
(Ogden et al., 2015). The early assessment also help in the factor of the treatment of the disease
in a better way that impact on the living style of the children and leads to a obesity free
community. However, the BMI screening is not a factor that considered by the Australian
government and it needed to be implemented for addressing the issue of the obesity. The factor
of the BMI screening was a process adopted by the US government in the schools and the
Australian government also routing to implementation of the process (Furukawa et al., 2017).
The following section will assess the economic factors of the implementation of the process. The
BMI index scorecard also would be described in the following section along with the cost
effectiveness of the process.
Discussion
Evaluation
The implementation of the BMI screening is considered by the state government and the
bill was passed for the implementation of the process in the schools. The bill states that the need
of the BMI screening of the children obesity level and the risk factors of the situation are needed

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to be recorded. Based on the screening report the government would implement different health
care and health promotion program for the children of the 5 to 12 grade (Freedman et al., 2017).
The program would need to be assessed on the basis of the risk factor of the disease and the
requirement of the health care program as well. The factor of the health program would be
assessed by the economist for the cost effectiveness of the program and the cost utility of the
process. The BMI screening of the children of the 5 to 12 grade found to be a very important
issue as most of the children found with mal diet that is the fat input is higher and the nutritional
aspect of the diet is very low (Zhou et al., 2016). The outcome of the screening found that the
health literacy of the parents and the children about the obesity is lower than required thus the
health promotion and the behavioural therapy would be needed to be implemented for the
prevention of the ill effects of obesity on the children and the adolescent population of the
country. State government should be able incorporate regulatory action by means of
implementing child care laws in order to provide the children with a healthy living condition and
prevent the obesity of the community. The risk factors of the obesity are the development of
early diabetes, renal disease, ophthalmic disease and other gastro-intestinal diseases. These
factors should be checked by means of the BMI screening and the health programs on the basis
of the screening. The economic factor of the health program would also need to be analysed on
the basis of the cost effectiveness and the time frame of the process for the success in the
prevention of the obesity among the young people. According to the study among the Australian
population it has been seen that 42% of the obese people are in young and adolescent group (The
Heart Foundation, 2019). The process should consume less time and also provide proper
knowledge about the problems of the disease. The factor of the BMI indexing should be recorded
in a score card format for every student of the school and the students would be divided

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according to the age and height. The differences before the health program and after the
implementation of the process would also be assessed by the workers for a better outcome
assessment of the program. The BMI scorecard would help in the assessment of the condition of
the community children health. The economist would plan the budget and the time of the process
on the basis of the requirement of the instruments and resources and the stakeholder
involvement. The regular observation of the condition of the BMI of the children would be
needed about one month interval and the health program would be done in a time frame of the
six months would be ideal (Kalani, Salimi & Rafiei, 2015).
Analysis
The analysis of the budget of the program would be done prior the program and the
assessment would be done by the economist for the better planning of the task. The program
should be done on the basis of the BMI scorecard of the students of the school. It is found that
the BMI scorecard shows above 95 percent obesity among 60 percent of the children of the
school of the 5 to 12 grade (Jabłonowska-Lietz et al., 2017). The budget of the program should
be in this critical case focused on the cost effective and the cost utility of the program and the
cost utility of the program would be assessed on the basis of the national level effect of the
program. As the success of the program would lead to lessening the effect of the obesity on the
children and the adolescent people of the country thus the government will not have to provide
health allowances to a large amount of people as the rate of the obesity among the young people
would be lessened by the program. The program would be done with volunteers and health care
personnel, doctors and the government personnel. The project would be done for 2 days a week