Modelling health gain and cost (savings) from prevention: tobacco tax and food taxes and subsidies
- 👤 Speaker: Prof Tony Blakely University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 23 June 2015, 12:30 - 13:30
- 📍 Venue: Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).
Abstract
Does tobacco tax gain health, reduce health inequalities and save costs in the health system? And how far into the future do these gains and savings occur?
Do food taxes and subsidies gain health and save costs? And how reliable is such modelling?
This address these questions, presenting results from a tobacco tax multistate lifetable model, and presenting preliminary findings – and in particular methodological challenges – for modelling food taxes and subsidies. The presentation will be of interest to:
- Those with a substantive interest in policy impacts.
- Epidemiologists, economist and modelers with an interest in ‘how do I model it?’
Series This talk is part of the IMS Epidemiology Seminars series.
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- Annual Food Agenda
- BHRU Annual Lecture 2015
- BHRU Annual Lecture 2016
- Cambridge Global Food Security
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
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- Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).
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Prof Tony Blakely University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 
Tuesday 23 June 2015, 12:30-13:30