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| |  Engaging Community Health Workers for Diabetes or Cardiovascular Disease Prevention is Cost-Effective A new publication from The Community Guide reports that interventions engaging community health workers for cardiovascular disease prevention or diabetes prevention or management are cost-effective. The estimated costs per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained for these intervention approaches were below $50,000a benchmark for cost-effectiveness. Jacob V, Chattopadhyay SK, Hopkins DP, Reynolds J, Xiong KZ, et al. Economics of community health workers for chronic disease: findings from Community Guide systematic reviews [PDF - 427 kB]. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2019;56(3):e95-e106. |
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