| Perspective |
Societal perspective with costs split into health sector, other government, industry, and private |
| Economic framework |
Cost—utility analysis by subgroup using Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage quintiles, as well as for the total population |
| Monetary unit of measurement |
Australian dollars |
| Base year |
2010 |
| Unit of measurement of outcomes |
Health-adjusted life years (HALYs) include disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for diseases prevented for adults and a quality of life adjustment for disability attributed to obesity itself for those aged under 20 years (using quality-adjusted life year [QALY] weights from the literature) |
| Comparator |
Current practice |
| Discount rate |
3%, as recommended by a consensus panel of US health economists and which approximates the real rate of return on long-term government bonds [51] |
| Time frame |
Lifetime |
