Adherence
A national produce prescription program for patients with diabetes and food insecurity is projected to improve diet, BMI, and HbA1c, thereby reducing long-term cardiovascular disease outcomes, improving quality-adjusted life-years, and generating health care cost savings.
If you have diabetes and struggle with food insecurity, a produce prescription program can help you eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. This change in diet can lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes complications, improve your daily quality of life, and potentially save money on healthcare costs over time. Talk to your healthcare provider about accessing such programs.
To illustrate the application of the DOC-M model, we evaluated the long-term cost-effectiveness of a national produce prescription program... our DOC-M incorporated evidence on produce prescription programs’ effectiveness in improving diet, BMI, and HbA1c... to estimate the lifetime population impact of implementing produce prescription programs on CVD outcomes, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), and health care costs and productivity benefits.
Why this rating
The evidence is based on a microsimulation model validated against NHANES and MESA data, using external evidence for the intervention's immediate effects, rather than a primary RCT of the specific national program.
Source
Development and Validation of the US Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease Microsimulation (DOC-M) Model: Health Disparity and Economic Impact Model
David D. Kim et al. · Medical Decision Making · 2023
DOI 10.1177/0272989x231196916
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