Alejandro Rodríguez Caro

El trasfondo económico de las intervenciones sanitarias en la prevención de la obesidad

In spite of methodological, organizational and economical difficulties, it is necessary to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of obesity prevention policies and the resources that society allocates to fighting this epidemic. This paper reviews the economic reasoning behind these policies and presents a review of the scientific literature on the economic burden of disease and on the cost-effectiveness of individual and community interventions to prevent obesity.

Methods for quarterly disaggregation without indicators: a comparative study using simulation

Various methods have been proposed to estimate quarterly figures from annual time series, but these methods have not been systematically evaluated in order to know which to use with which kind of data. This study compares, with a Monte Carlo simulation, those methods that use only information from annual series. Differences in the results of the methods, analyzed as functions of characteristics such as the number of years or variability of the original annual time series, suggest which methods to use under which conditions.