ActEarly

A City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing

LSE Principal Investigator: Miqdad Asaria
Start Date: September 2019
End Date: March 2025
Funder: Medical Research Council (MRC)
Regions: UK
Countries: UK
Keywords: Health inequalities

This project examines the role early interventions on health and wellbeing over the life-course. We ran a number randomised controlled trials and natural experiments to evaluate early interventions in London and Bradford and extrapolate our results using microsimulation modelling based on data from key UK longitudinal studies.

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Selected project outputs

• Skarda, I, Cookson, RA, Cotton-Barrett, O, Adler, M, Asaria, M & Toby, O 2020,  'Quality Adjusted Life Years Based on Health and Consumption: A Summary Wellbeing Measure for Cross-Sectoral Economic Evaluation', Health Economics, pp. 1-16.
• Skarda, I., Asaria, M. and Cookson, R., 2022. Evaluating childhood policy impacts on lifetime health, wellbeing and inequality: Lifecourse distributional economic evaluation. Social Science & Medicine, 302, p.114960.
• Skarda, Ieva, Miqdad Asaria, and Richard Cookson. 2021. “LifeSim: A Lifecourse Dynamic Microsimulation Model of the Millennium Birth Cohort in England."
• Villadsen, A., Asaria, M., Skarda, I., Brunner, E. J.,  Ploubidis, G, B, Mon-Williams, M, Cookson, R., 2023. Clustering of Adverse Health and Educational Outcomes in Adolescence Following Early Childhood Disadvantage: Population-Based Retrospective UK Cohort Study. The Lancet Public Health, 8(4), pp.e286-e293. DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00029-4