Linda Cobiac
Biographic Data
| ID | 6168604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Cobiac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobiac |
| SIGNATURE | COBIAC L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2271-6494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The impact of fiscal food policies on the macro-economy
The UK government announced the ‘Soft Drinks Industry Levy’ (SDIL), a tiered tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), in 2016 and implemented the tax in 2018. Traditional economic assessments of SSB tax interventions focus on assessing healthcare cost implications using the standard Cost-of-Illness methodology. No studies have so far attempted to apply macroeconomic assessment methods to assess net macroeconomic impacts of SSB taxes, including an…
The Avoidable Health Burden and Healthcare Costs Related to Alcohol Consumption in Australia
This study used The Alcohol Policy model (TAP), a newly-developed proportional multi-state lifetable model, to estimate the avoidable alcohol-related disease, injury and healthcare cost burden in the Australian adult population (aged ≥ 15 years). The model base year was 2020. Changes in alcohol consumption were modelled to lead to changes in incident cases and mortality from alcohol-related diseases and injuries, long-term health outcomes summari…
The potential health impact and healthcare cost savings of different sodium reduction strategies in Canada
Reducing population-level sodium intakes is feasible and has the potential to improve health outcomes and save healthcare costs in Canada. From interventions tested, most health and healthcare costs gains were attributed to fully meeting sodium reduction targets, which highlights the importance of changing the voluntary nature of these targets to mandatory. A combination of strategies, mandatory sodium reduction targets and implementation of the …
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification
BACKGROUND: Electrification of the light vehicle fleet is a core component of decarbonisation policy globally. As transport is an important determinant of health, this process will likely impact a range of pathways to population health, outside of averted climate change. METHODS: A transport-health multistate lifetable model for Aotearoa/New Zealand was used to model changes in the vehicle fleet and transport behaviour patterns that could be expe…
Avoidable burden of stomach cancer and potential gains in healthy life years from gradual reductions in salt consumption in Vietnam, 2019–2030
Objective: Excess salt consumption is causally linked with stomach cancer, and salt intake among adults in Vietnam is about twice the recommended levels. The aim of this study was to quantify the future burden of stomach cancer that could be avoided from population-wide salt reduction in Vietnam. Design: A dynamic simulation model was developed to quantify the impacts of achieving the 2018 National Vietnam Health Program (8 g/d by 2025 and 7 g/d …
Dietary Salt Reduction, Prevalence of Hypertension and Avoidable Burden of Stroke in Vietnam
Dietary salt reduction has been recommended as a cost-effective population-wide strategy to prevent cardiovascular disease. The health and economic impact of salt consumption on the future burden of stroke in Vietnam is not known. Objective: To estimate the avoidable incidence of and deaths from stroke, as well as the healthy life years and healthcare costs that could be gained from reducing salt consumption in Vietnam. Methods: This was a macros…
Prospective impact of tobacco eradication and overweight and obesity eradication on future morbidity and health-adjusted life expectancy
BACKGROUND: Interventions that reduce morbidity, in addition to mortality, warrant prioritisation. It is important to understand the magnitude of potential morbidity and health gains from changing risk factor distributions. We quantified the impact of tobacco compared with overweight/obesity eradication on future morbidity and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for the New Zealand population alive in 2011. METHODS: Business-as-usual (BAU) fut…
Restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies combined with cessation advice
This work provides modelling-level evidence that the package of restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies combined with cessation advice in these settings can accelerate progress towards the tobacco endgame, and achieve large population health benefits and cost-savings
Obesity-related health impacts of fuel excise taxation- an evidence review and cost-effectiveness study
Exploratory analysis suggests that an intervention to increase fuel excise taxation may deliver obesity and physical activity related benefits. Whilst such an intervention has significant potential for cost-effectiveness, potential equity and acceptability impacts would need to be minimised. A better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a range of transport interventions is required in order to achieve more physically acti…
Impact of increasing tobacco taxes on working-age adults
The majority of the health benefit over a 10-year horizon from increasing tobacco taxes is accrued in the working-age population (20-65 years). There remains a need for more work on the associated productivity benefits of such health gains
Impact of five tobacco endgame strategies on future smoking prevalence, population health and health system costs
Implementing endgame strategies is needed to achieve tobacco endgame targets and reduce inequalities in smoking. Given such strategies are new, modelling studies provide provisional information on what approaches may be best
Assessing the external validity of model-based estimates of the incidence of heart attack in England
By comparison with AMI incidence rates in England, DisMod II did not achieve external validity for age-specific incidence rates, but did provide global estimates of incidence that are of similar magnitude to measured estimates. The model should be used with caution when estimating age-specific incidence rates
The health gains and cost savings of dietary salt reduction interventions, with equity and age distributional aspects
The benefits are consistent with the international literature, with large health gains and cost savings possible from some, but not all, sodium reduction interventions. Health gain appears likely to occur among working-age adults and all interventions contributed to reducing health inequalities
Tobacco retail outlet restrictions
These tobacco outlet reductions reduced smoking prevalence, achieved health gains and saved health system costs. Effects would be larger if outlet reductions have additional spill-over effects (eg, smoking denormalisation). While these interventions were not as effective as tobacco tax increases (using the same model), these and other strategies could be combined to maximise health gain and to maximise cost-savings to the health system
Do low-carbon-emission diets lead to higher nutritional quality and positive health outcomes? A systematic review of the literature
Objective To evaluate what is known about the relative health impacts, in terms of nutrient intake and health outcomes, of diets with reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). Design We systematically reviewed the results of published studies that link GHGE of dietary patterns to nutritional content or associated consequences for health. Setting We included studies published in English in peer-reviewed journals that included data on actual and mod…
Theoretical impacts of a range of major tobacco retail outlet reduction interventions
This modelling merges geographic, economic and epidemiological methodologies in a novel way, but the results should be interpreted cautiously and further research is desirable. Nevertheless, the results still suggest that tobacco outlet reduction interventions could modestly contribute to an endgame goal
Modelling the implications of regular increases in tobacco taxation in the tobacco endgame
Regular increases in tobacco taxation could play an important role in helping to achieve tobacco endgames. However, this modelling in New Zealand suggests that a wider range of tobacco endgame strategies will be needed to achieve a smoke-free goal of less than 5% prevalence for all social groups--a conclusion that could also apply in other countries
What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence by 2025? Modelling in a country with a smokefree goal
The smokefree goal of <5% prevalence is only feasible with large increases in cessation rates
Improving the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in Australia
Changing to absolute risk-based cardiovascular disease prevention is highly recommended for reducing health sector spending, but the Australian Government must also consider measures to reduce the cost of statin drugs, over and above the legislated price cuts of November 2010
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Improving the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in Australia
Changing to absolute risk-based cardiovascular disease prevention is highly recommended for reducing health sector spending, but the Australian Government must also consider measures to reduce the cost of statin drugs, over and above the legislated price cuts of November 2010
What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence by 2025? Modelling in a country with a smokefree goal
The smokefree goal of <5% prevalence is only feasible with large increases in cessation rates
Theoretical impacts of a range of major tobacco retail outlet reduction interventions
This modelling merges geographic, economic and epidemiological methodologies in a novel way, but the results should be interpreted cautiously and further research is desirable. Nevertheless, the results still suggest that tobacco outlet reduction interventions could modestly contribute to an endgame goal
Modelling the implications of regular increases in tobacco taxation in the tobacco endgame
Regular increases in tobacco taxation could play an important role in helping to achieve tobacco endgames. However, this modelling in New Zealand suggests that a wider range of tobacco endgame strategies will be needed to achieve a smoke-free goal of less than 5% prevalence for all social groups--a conclusion that could also apply in other countries
Assessing the external validity of model-based estimates of the incidence of heart attack in England
By comparison with AMI incidence rates in England, DisMod II did not achieve external validity for age-specific incidence rates, but did provide global estimates of incidence that are of similar magnitude to measured estimates. The model should be used with caution when estimating age-specific incidence rates
The health gains and cost savings of dietary salt reduction interventions, with equity and age distributional aspects
The benefits are consistent with the international literature, with large health gains and cost savings possible from some, but not all, sodium reduction interventions. Health gain appears likely to occur among working-age adults and all interventions contributed to reducing health inequalities
Tobacco retail outlet restrictions
These tobacco outlet reductions reduced smoking prevalence, achieved health gains and saved health system costs. Effects would be larger if outlet reductions have additional spill-over effects (eg, smoking denormalisation). While these interventions were not as effective as tobacco tax increases (using the same model), these and other strategies could be combined to maximise health gain and to maximise cost-savings to the health system
Do low-carbon-emission diets lead to higher nutritional quality and positive health outcomes? A systematic review of the literature
Objective To evaluate what is known about the relative health impacts, in terms of nutrient intake and health outcomes, of diets with reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). Design We systematically reviewed the results of published studies that link GHGE of dietary patterns to nutritional content or associated consequences for health. Setting We included studies published in English in peer-reviewed journals that included data on actual and mod…
Obesity-related health impacts of fuel excise taxation- an evidence review and cost-effectiveness study
Exploratory analysis suggests that an intervention to increase fuel excise taxation may deliver obesity and physical activity related benefits. Whilst such an intervention has significant potential for cost-effectiveness, potential equity and acceptability impacts would need to be minimised. A better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a range of transport interventions is required in order to achieve more physically acti…
Impact of increasing tobacco taxes on working-age adults
The majority of the health benefit over a 10-year horizon from increasing tobacco taxes is accrued in the working-age population (20-65 years). There remains a need for more work on the associated productivity benefits of such health gains
Impact of five tobacco endgame strategies on future smoking prevalence, population health and health system costs
Implementing endgame strategies is needed to achieve tobacco endgame targets and reduce inequalities in smoking. Given such strategies are new, modelling studies provide provisional information on what approaches may be best
Restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies combined with cessation advice
This work provides modelling-level evidence that the package of restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies combined with cessation advice in these settings can accelerate progress towards the tobacco endgame, and achieve large population health benefits and cost-savings
Prospective impact of tobacco eradication and overweight and obesity eradication on future morbidity and health-adjusted life expectancy
BACKGROUND: Interventions that reduce morbidity, in addition to mortality, warrant prioritisation. It is important to understand the magnitude of potential morbidity and health gains from changing risk factor distributions. We quantified the impact of tobacco compared with overweight/obesity eradication on future morbidity and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for the New Zealand population alive in 2011. METHODS: Business-as-usual (BAU) fut…
Dietary Salt Reduction, Prevalence of Hypertension and Avoidable Burden of Stroke in Vietnam
Dietary salt reduction has been recommended as a cost-effective population-wide strategy to prevent cardiovascular disease. The health and economic impact of salt consumption on the future burden of stroke in Vietnam is not known. Objective: To estimate the avoidable incidence of and deaths from stroke, as well as the healthy life years and healthcare costs that could be gained from reducing salt consumption in Vietnam. Methods: This was a macros…
Avoidable burden of stomach cancer and potential gains in healthy life years from gradual reductions in salt consumption in Vietnam, 2019–2030
Objective: Excess salt consumption is causally linked with stomach cancer, and salt intake among adults in Vietnam is about twice the recommended levels. The aim of this study was to quantify the future burden of stomach cancer that could be avoided from population-wide salt reduction in Vietnam. Design: A dynamic simulation model was developed to quantify the impacts of achieving the 2018 National Vietnam Health Program (8 g/d by 2025 and 7 g/d …
The Avoidable Health Burden and Healthcare Costs Related to Alcohol Consumption in Australia
This study used The Alcohol Policy model (TAP), a newly-developed proportional multi-state lifetable model, to estimate the avoidable alcohol-related disease, injury and healthcare cost burden in the Australian adult population (aged ≥ 15 years). The model base year was 2020. Changes in alcohol consumption were modelled to lead to changes in incident cases and mortality from alcohol-related diseases and injuries, long-term health outcomes summari…
The potential health impact and healthcare cost savings of different sodium reduction strategies in Canada
Reducing population-level sodium intakes is feasible and has the potential to improve health outcomes and save healthcare costs in Canada. From interventions tested, most health and healthcare costs gains were attributed to fully meeting sodium reduction targets, which highlights the importance of changing the voluntary nature of these targets to mandatory. A combination of strategies, mandatory sodium reduction targets and implementation of the …
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification
BACKGROUND: Electrification of the light vehicle fleet is a core component of decarbonisation policy globally. As transport is an important determinant of health, this process will likely impact a range of pathways to population health, outside of averted climate change. METHODS: A transport-health multistate lifetable model for Aotearoa/New Zealand was used to model changes in the vehicle fleet and transport behaviour patterns that could be expe…
The impact of fiscal food policies on the macro-economy
The UK government announced the ‘Soft Drinks Industry Levy’ (SDIL), a tiered tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), in 2016 and implemented the tax in 2018. Traditional economic assessments of SSB tax interventions focus on assessing healthcare cost implications using the standard Cost-of-Illness methodology. No studies have so far attempted to apply macroeconomic assessment methods to assess net macroeconomic impacts of SSB taxes, including an…
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