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Date:
July 11, 2002
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG1, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building, 21 Sassoon Road. Pokfulam.
The
attempt of the HKSAR government to set regulations prohibiting people
from smoking in all public premises has received a lot of public
attention. This seminar will address a range of issues relating
to the economics of tobacco control and the costs of abuse of tobacco
and other drugs. The seminar will cover topics including defining
and identifying costs, estimating the avoidable costs, and analysis
of who bears the costs of drug abuse. The costs of active and involuntary
smoking will also be discussed and the policy implications of the
results of economic studies of the abuse of tobacco and other drugs
will be reviewed.
Dr
Lapsley has undertaken many international consultancies on behalf
of the World Bank, the World Health Organization as well as the
International Red Cross and many other agencies. Her recent consultancy
work includes the development of economic policies in health care,
resource allocation and the development and integration of technology
in the health care sector.
Dr
Lapsley is a health economist and a Visiting Fellow in the School
of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New
South Wales, Australia. She has undertaken many international consultancies
on behalf of the World Bank, the World Health Organization as well
as the International Red Cross. Her recent consultancy work include
studies of the development of economic policies in health care,
resource allocation and the development and integration of technology
in the health care sector.
She is an active member of many organizations including the Australian
National Expert Advisory Committee on Tobacco and the Governing
Committee of NSW Cancer Control Network.
Dr
Lapsley's recent publications include:
- "The
Social Costs of Tobacco in Western Australia and the Social Benefits
of Reducing Western Australian Smoking Prevalence", Monograph
series No. 1, 2001, Cancer Foundation of Western Australia
- "Living
with Osteoarthritis: Patient Expenditures, Health Status, and
Social Impact", Arthritis Care & Research 2001,
45:301-306
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