Thomas Blakely

Dados Biográficos

ID459038
NOMEThomas Blakely
PRENOMESThomas
SOBRENOMEBlakely
ASSINATURABLAKELY T
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Otago
ORCID0000-0002-6995-4369
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS113
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES575
TOTAL COMO AUTOR113
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1981
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H13

  • Modelling the potential impacts of limiting vaping product sales to pharmacies

    Driss Ait Ouakrim, Tim Wilson et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2025

    Our model suggests modest reductions in vaping prevalence and net health gains from the OTC pharmacy policy, with minor benefits from a prescription-only approach. These findings underscore the importance of balancing the potential smoking cessation benefits of vaping with the need to curb youth uptake. Future research is required to better understand how vaping restriction policies could impact vaping and smoking dynamics in A/NZ, in particular,…

  • Economic effects for citizens and the government of a country-level tobacco endgame strategy

    Driss Ait Ouakrim, Tim Wilson et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    A policy such as the A/NZ Smokefree Action Plan is likely to produce substantial economic benefits for citizens, and modest impacts on government finances related to reduced tobacco tax and increases in aged pensions due to increased life expectancy. Such costs can be anticipated and planned for and might be largely offset by future increases in the size of the labour force and the proportion of people 65+ years old working in the formal economy

  • Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori

    Open AccessDriss Ait Ouakrim, Tim Wilson et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    A tobacco endgame strategy, especially denicotinisation, could deliver large health benefits and dramatically reduce health inequities between Māori and non-Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand

  • Fifty-year forecasts of daily smoking prevalence

    Stephen Wade, Marianne F Weber et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    A 5% adult daily smoking prevalence target cannot be achieved by the year 2030 based on current trends. Urgent investment in concerted strategies that prevent smoking initiation and facilitate cessation is necessary to achieve 5% prevalence by 2030

  • Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity

    Finn Sigglekow, Nick Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2023Referências: 12

    OBJECTIVE: To estimate the income loss from having two or more diseases, over and above the independent and separate effects of having a single disease. METHODS: We used linked health income data from 2006-2007 to 2015-2016 for 25-64 years, for the entire New Zealand population. Fixed effects OLS regression was used to estimate within-individual income loss for diseases separately, and to estimate if having two or more diseases together resulted …

  • The total health gains and cost savings of eradicating cold housing in Australia

    Open AccessShiva Raj Mishra, Tim Wilson et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 3Referências: 22

  • Jama Health Forum Peer Reviewers in 2021

    Open AccessJason Jean, Marie Abraham et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

  • Housing and health

    Adelle Mansour, Rebecca Bentley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2022Citada por: 3Referências: 54

    Recent crises have underscored the importance that housing has in sustaining good health and, equally, its potential to harm health. Considering this and building on Howden-Chapman’s early glossary of housing and health and the WHO Housing and Health Guidelines, this paper introduces a range of housing and health-related terms, reflecting almost 20 years of development in the field. It defines key concepts currently used in research, policy and p…

  • Association of Simulated Covid-19 Policy Responses for Social Restrictions and Lockdowns With Health-Adjusted Life-Years and Costs in Victoria, Australia

    Open AccessThomas Blakely, Jason Thompson et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

    In this simulation modeling economic evaluation of estimated SARS-CoV-infection rates, time under 5 stages of restrictions, HALYs, health expenditure, and GDP losses in Victoria, Australia, an elimination strategy was associated with the least health losses and usually the fewest GDP losses

  • Health benefits and costs of weight-loss dietary counselling by nurses in primary care

    Open AccessChristine Cleghorn, Christine L Cleghorn et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: We aimed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of brief weight-loss counselling by dietitian-trained practice nurses, in a high-income-country case study. Design: A literature search of the impact of dietary counselling on BMI was performed to source the ‘best’ effect size for use in modelling. This was combined with multiple other input parameters (e.g. epidemiological and cost parameters for obesity-related diseases, likely uptake of co…

  • Prospective impact of tobacco eradication and overweight and obesity eradication on future morbidity and health-adjusted life expectancy

    Thomas Blakely, Cristine Cleghorn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2020Referências: 28

    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…

  • Mass media promotion of a smartphone smoking cessation app

    Open AccessNhung Nghiem, William Leung et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    This study provides modelling-level evidence that mass-media promotion of a smartphone app for smoking cessation could generate health gain, reduce ethnic inequalities in health and save health system costs. Nevertheless, there are other tobacco control measures which generate considerably larger health gains and cost-savings such as raising tobacco taxes

  • Impact of tax and tobacco-free generation on health-adjusted life years in the Solomon Islands

    Ankur Singh, Frederieke Sanne Petrović-Van Der Deen et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2019

    This study quantified the potential of two tobacco control policies over maximum health gains achievable through tobacco eradication in the Solomon Islands

  • Restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies combined with cessation advice

    Frederieke Sanne Petrović-Van Der Deen, Thomas Blakely et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2018

    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

  • Thank you to our reviewers

    Lorien Abroms, Kathleen M Adams et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2018

  • Socio-economic inequalities in mortality for Asian people

    Open AccessSantosh Jatrana, Saira Dayal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2018Referências: 8

  • Do nutrition labels influence healthier food choices? Analysis of label viewing behaviour and subsequent food purchases in a labelling intervention trial

    Open AccessCliona Ni Mhurchu, Helen Eyles et al.ARTICLEAppetite2018Citada por: 6Referências: 16

    BACKGROUND: There are few objective data on how nutrition labels are used in real-world shopping situations, or how they affect dietary choices and patterns. DESIGN: The Starlight study was a four-week randomised, controlled trial of the effects of three different types of nutrition labels on consumer food purchases: Traffic Light Labels, Health Star Rating labels, or Nutrition Information Panels (control). Smartphone technology allowed participa…

  • A national quitline service and its promotion in the mass media

    Nhung Nghiem, Christine Cleghorn et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2017

    The package of a quitline service and its promotion in the mass media appears to be an effective means to generate health gain, address health inequalities and save health system costs. Nevertheless, the role of this intervention needs to be compared with other tobacco control and health sector interventions, some of which may be even more cost saving

  • Impact of increasing tobacco taxes on working-age adults

    Christine Cleghorn, Christine L Cleghorn et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2017

    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

    Frederieke S van der Deen, Nick Wilson et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2017

    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

  • Cumulative receipt of an anti-poverty tax credit for families did not impact tobacco smoking among parents

    Open AccessFrank Pega, Paola Gilsanz et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Citada por: 2Referências: 13

  • Collaborating with a social housing provider supports a large cohort study of the health effects of housing conditions

    Open AccessMichael G Baker, Jane Zhang et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    This project has shown that an administrative housing database can be used to form a large cohort population and successfully link cohort members to their health records in a way that meets confidentiality and ethical requirements. This study also confirms that social housing tenants are a highly deprived population with relatively low incomes and high levels of exposure to household crowding and environmental tobacco smoke

  • The health gains and cost savings of dietary salt reduction interventions, with equity and age distributional aspects

    Open AccessNhung Nghiem, Thomas Blakely et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    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

  • Study protocol

    Open AccessWilma Waterlander, Wilma E Waterlander et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12616000122459 (registered 3 February 2016)

  • Tobacco retail outlet restrictions

    Amber L Pearson, Christine Cleghorn et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2016

    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