Category Archives: Health

Time and Money Spent Gambling and the Relationship with Quality-of-life Measures:

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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…
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The Benefits and Costs Of Gambling: Some Policy Implications

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Commissioned Report: April 2010 Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy; Executive Summary The following is not the usual executive summary. Rather it draws out the policy implications of the known costs and benefits of gambling, thereby summarising the main report, which consists of two parts. Appendix I is a general account about how economists…
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Targeting the Minimum Price Of Alcohol

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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…
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Drinking and Self Assessed Welfare: a Statistical Analysis

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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….
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Reviewing the Sale Of Liquor Act: Tax and Pricing Consequences

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Report prepared for the New Zealand Law Commission. Filed 30 June, 2009. Executive Summary Keywords: Health; : Health;1. The Policy Framework It is assumed that any review of the Sale of Liquor Act 1989 will continue the policy framework on which it was based. Previously, the implicit assumption was that almost all alcohol consumption was…
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Executive Summary Of Reviewing the Sale Of Liquor Act: Tax and Pricing Consequences

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Report prepared for the New Zealand Law Commission. Filed 30 June, 2009. The Executive Summary was reproduced in the Law Commission’s report Alcohol in Our Lives, p.172-175.   The full report   Keywords: Health;   Conclusions             – on the whole, much alcohol consumption is benign or even socially beneficial, but some generates very great…
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Measuring the Impact Of Gambling

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Paper to the Wellington Statistical Group, 2 February, 2009. (With Quan (Ryan) You Analyst, Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE), of Massey University.)   Keywords: Health; Statistics;   In 2007 the Ministry of Health commissioned Massey University’s Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE) and Te Ropu Whariki…
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Assessment Of the Social Impacts Of Gambling in New Zealand

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Report to Ministry of Health by Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation & Te Ropu Whariki, Massey University.   Keywords: Health; Statistics;   “The report of the project Assessment of the Social Impacts of Gambling in New Zealand was primarily written by En-Yi (Judy) Lin and Sally  Casswell with analysis by Ru…
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Evidence to the Human Rights Review Tribunal

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The case involved a number of parents of disabled adult children who claimed that the Ministry of Health discriminated against them, by not paying them for services for which it would pay outside carer. For more detail see http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1396 . My role was a very small one dealing with the costs. Keywords: Health; Social Policy;…
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Civilised Drinking

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Cheers to George Laking: 1912-2008. Listener: 23 February, 2008. Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Sir George Laking rendered many services to New Zealanders. Perhaps none was as important as his chairing the 1989 government committee that recommended today’s liquor licensing regime. The consumption of liquor has always been a problem, less so in the distant…
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Socioeconomic Impacts Of Gambling

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Paper for Combined APSAD and Cutting Edge Addiction Conference 2007 (Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-7 November 2007). This reports on a contract of SHORE (Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation) at Massey University.     Keywords: Health;    One area of addiction is gambling. Over the last year SHORE, the Centre for…
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Policy Convergence: Health Care

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Chapter 16 of “Globalisation and the Wealth of Nations” Keywords: Health; While there is much policy convergence, both to best practice and where international trade is involved, this chapter argues that it is not necessary in many areas, such as health care. But even here, cross-boundary movements of goods and people compromise a country’s freedom…
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