Economic effects of reducing consumption of unhealthy commodities with Damon Morris

In this episode, Dr Elle Wadsworth talks to Dr Damon Morris, a Research Fellow in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group, School of Medicine and Population Health, at the University of Sheffield, UK. The interview covers Damon’s research article modelling the economic effects of reducing the consumption of unhealthy commodities.

• The drive to conduct this study [01:30]
• The economic outputs of interest to capture the net effects of the economy [03:00]
• What a simulation model is [04:10]
• An explanation of the commercial determinants of health input-output model [05:06]
• The unhealthy commodities used in this study [06:20]
• The key findings of the study [07:28]
• The difference between the off-trade and on-trade alcohol results [08:50]
• A summary of the key results [10:22]
• The break-even reallocation rate: the point at which the negative economic impacts of reduced spending are exactly offset by the positive impacts of increased spending on other products [10:55]
• The implications of the findings for policy makers [13:10]
• The generalisability of the findings to outside the UK [14:44]
• The missing pieces of the model [15:50]

About Elle Wadsworth: Elle is an academic fellow with the Society for the Study of Addiction. She is based at the University of Bath with the Addiction and Mental Health Group and her research interests include drug policy, cannabis legalisation, and public health. Elle holds voluntary roles at The Loop, a non-profit service provider of drug checking in the UK, and the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy.

About Damon Morris: Damon is a Research Fellow in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG), School of Medicine and Population Health, at the University of Sheffield. Damon’s current research is in the area of public health and labour economic modelling, primarily in ongoing development of the Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Model (STAPM), an economic and epidemiological model of alcohol and tobacco consumption and health dynamics used to appraise public health policy.

Declarations of interest: None

Original article: Modelling the economic effects of reducing the consumption of unhealthy commodities: An inter-sectoral input–output approach https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70336

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