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Table 2 Costs estimates for the policy interventions included in the cost effectiveness analysis*

From: The health and economic impact and cost effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and control of overweight and obesity in Kenya: a stakeholder engaged modelling study

Costing aspects

Costing components

Total cost in KShs.

Total cost in USD

Costing time/ period

Cost in KShs. for each year

Cost in USD/year

Source

Intervention: Tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

Tax on sugar-sweetened beverages#

Components: Human resources, training, meetings, mass media, supplies & equipment, other

2,945,702,203

28,881,897

100 years

  

WHO NCD costing tool [63]

    

Year 1a

91,916,681

901,221

    

Year 2

34,377,747

337,065

    

Year 3-100

28,769,467

282,078

 

Cost per capita

58.65

0.58

    

Intervention: Mandatory kilojoule labelling on food served in formal sector restaurants

Mandatory kilojoule labelling on food served in formal sector restaurants#

Components: Human resources, training, meetings, mass media, supplies & equipment, other

3,528,254,086

34,593,678

100 years

  

WHO NCD costing tool [63]

    

Year 1a

143,510,565

1,407,086

    

Year 2

41,306,290

404,998

    

Year 3-100

34,116,706

334,506

 

Cost per capita

70.25

0.69

    
  1. Kshs.: Kenya shillings, USD: United States Dollar
  2. *All costs are inflated to the year 2019. #To estimate the total cost for the intervention per year, we used examples of similar upstream health promoting intervention that we considered require broadly similar implementation resources
  3. Year 1a in our case is 2019, our base case year