Think about BMI intervention

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This is the repository for the English version of the Future Elderly Model, originally developed at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Microsimulation.

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Think about BMI intervention #34

Closed ld-archer closed 3 years ago

ld-archer commented 3 years ago

Instead of the arbitrary intervention already created (ReduceBMI), could we do something a bit cleverer?

We could find statistics on the distribution of BMI in England 50+ in 1980, then reweight repl population to look like this distribution. Then we would be doing something a bit more grounded but showing the same thing?

Think about this a bit more.

ld-archer commented 3 years ago

Interesting table from this paper: obesity_over_time Can maybe use these numbers to plan the intervention. Reduce the prevalence of obesity (BMI > 30) to match the value in 1983, which could be done by changing the input population. To think about:

How to make a realistic looking distribution to match 1 data point?
How to decide who's BMI to reduce and who to leave obese?

ld-archer commented 3 years ago

No longer doing a BMI intervention, but keep in mind for the future?