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SUMMARY:Modelling health gain and cost (savings) from prevention: tobacco 
 tax and food taxes and subsidies - Prof Tony Blakely University of Otago\,
  Wellington\, New Zealand
DTSTART:20150623T113000Z
DTEND:20150623T123000Z
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CONTACT:Signe Wulund
DESCRIPTION:Does tobacco tax gain health\, reduce health inequalities and 
 save costs in the health system?  And how far into the future do these gai
 ns and savings occur?\n\nDo food taxes and subsidies gain health and save 
 costs?  And how reliable is such modelling?\n\nThis address these question
 s\, presenting results from a tobacco tax multistate lifetable model\, and
  presenting preliminary findings – and in particular methodological chal
 lenges – for modelling food taxes and subsidies.  The presentation will 
 be of interest to:\n\n* Those with a substantive interest in policy impact
 s.\n* Epidemiologists\, economist and modelers with an interest in ‘how 
 do I model it?’
LOCATION:Meeting rooms\, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences\, Addenbr
 ooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). 
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