Evaluation of an educational intervention using the enhanced food safety cost-of-illness model.

Full Abstract

In recent years, a number of federally sponsored state-based food safety education programs have conducted economic evaluations aimed at demonstrating the efficacy of their approaches. These evaluations have typically been based on the "Virginia method," a comprehensive, but overly simplistic means of estimating benefit-cost ratios for food safety and nutrition education programs. In this article, we use the enhanced food safety cost-of-illness model, coupled with a more complete food safety education intervention model to evaluate the efficacy of the Ohio Family Nutrition Program. We find that, under most reasonable assumptions, the derived benefit-cost ratios imply that this program is socially beneficial. The model presented here is of particular use because it can be replicated to evaluate other broad-based food safety programs.

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Author/s: Scharff, Robert L (RL); McDowell, Joyce (J); Medeiros, Lydia (L);

Affiliation: Department of Consumer Sciences, The Ohio State University, 1787 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1295, USA. Scharff.8(-atsign-)osu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of food protection (J Food Prot), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Jan; vol 72 (issue 1) : pp 137-41

Dates: Created 2009/02/11; Completed 2009/03/03;

PMID: 19205474, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 3/10/2009)

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