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GAMBLING ECONOMICS (INDEX)

Keywords:� Health;
Time and Money Spent Gambling and the Relationship with Quality-of-life Measures: A National Study of New Zealanders (July 2010) Journal of Gambling Issues
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1336
Measuring the Impact of Gambling (February 2009)� Paper to Wellington Statistical Group
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=938
Assessment of the Social Impacts of Gambling in New Zealand (January 2009) Report to the Mnistry of Health
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=929
Socioeconomic Impacts of Gambling [...]

ALCOHOL AND RELATED STUDIES (INDEX)

Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;

The Social Costs of Alcohol Misuse

The Regulation of Alcohol

COSTS AND BENEFITS AND ALCOHOL POLICY

COSTS AND BENEFITS AND ALCOHOL POLICY
A Note for the Symposium on Cost-benefit Analysis on Alcohol Policy Barcelona, 18-19 October 2010
Keywords: Health;
This note covers three issues involving cost-benefit analysis (and the related cost of illness analysis) . At the heart of each is a neoclassical theory of decision making, for CBA is rigorously underpinned by various [...]

TAXING HARMFUL DRINKING

Paper for the launch of �Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity 2 ed�, 19 August, 2010.
Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;
Executive Summary: This paper argues that the harm from the consumption of alcohol can be reduced by targeting the minimum of price of alcohol, but by using an excise drawback rather than setting a minimum price of alcohol.� [...]

TIME AND MONEY SPENT GAMBLING AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH QUALITY-OF-LIFE MEASURES:

A national study of New Zealanders
Keywords:� Health; Statistics;
Published in the Journal of Gambling Issues 24, July 2010, pp.33-53.
Authors: En-Yi Judy Lin; Sally Casswell; Brian Easton; Taisia Huckle; Lanuola Asiasiga;
Ru Quan You:� Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract
This study provides quantitative measures of the impacts of gambling [...]

CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH HAPPINESS

This is the draft of a paper for 2009 Conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association, 3 September 2009. The presentation was a PowerPoint based on it. It is part of a study of the impact of drinking by associates undertaken by the� Centre for Social and Health Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (SHORE), Massey University. [...]

TARGETING THE MINIMUM PRICE OF ALCOHOL

This paper was prepared in October 2009 for the Law Commission when it was reviewing alcohol policy. It is released under the Official Information Act.
Keywords: Health;� Regulation & Taxation
Terms of Reference
The Law Commission has asked for a report describing how a minimum price regime for alcoholic beverages might be implemented, and what would be [...]

FUNDING THE HEALTH SECTOR

Paper to the �Funding in the Health Sector Conference�: 28 September, 2009
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Keywords: Health;
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Why is health funding a problem? The easy answer � the answer popular in the public policy debate � is to talk about the size of the health services sector, the proportion which is publically funded, especially in a [...]

THEY SAY IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT

Spending on health care is rising rapidly – but there’s one thing we could do.
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Listener: 26 September, 2009.
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Keywords: Health;
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We are told that the health-care sector is a drag on the economy. It is growing faster than the economy as a whole and is chewing up a fifth of core Crown spending. A [...]

Brian Easton