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Second National Preventive Health Research Programme    Bohemian Teenagers Arts Assistance Programme      Defined Terms BTAAP

First BTAAP Business Plan      Bohemian Teenagers Show Choir Programme        Defined Terms BTSCP

Second BTAAP Business Plan    Bohemian Teenagers Symphony Orchestras Programme    Defined Terms - Bohemian Teenager Symphony Orchestra Programme

Third BTAAP Business Plan    Bohemian Teenager Ballet & Modern Dance Programme        Defined Terms BTB&MDCP

VicHealth's "The health and economic benefits of reducing disease risk factors" released 8 Oct '09 unequivocally justify my Two National Preventive Health Research Programmes

Below are pertinent extracts from the VicHealth report's Executive Summary:

Overview of Results:

Overall, large potential opportunity cost savings from the avoidable disease burden are possible if we achieve the ‘feasible’ reductions in the prevalence of the nominated risk factors. Over the lifetime of the 2008 Australian adult population, opportunity cost savings were conservatively estimated to be $2,334 million (using Friction Cost Approach) or $3,057 million (using Human Capital Approach). The total opportunity cost savings are the sum of the health sector offsets and the combined workforce, household and leisure production effects (see column with mean estimates in Table 1).

Discussion:

The key messages are:

i)         the potential benefits of reducing risk factor prevalence are substantial;

ii)        the gains vary by risk factor and reduction target considered; and

iii)       further research is required to reduce the uncertainty surrounding the estimates.

One might argue that the large potential opportunity cost savings we found could enable the upfront investment in suitable prevention interventions.

This Deakin University report focused on the below six potentially modifiable risk factors resulting from Lifestyle Related Chronic Diseases:

  1. intimate partner violence (IPV),

  2. high risk alcohol consumption,

  3. inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption,

  4. physical inactivity,

  5. tobacco smoking; and

  6. high body mass index (BMI).

Health agencies have a penchant for expending vast amounts of monies on countless reports which measure some of the problems resulting from Negligent Lifestyle, but health agencies are reluctant to work with creative, successful people in the private sector to agree an Implementation Strategy consistent with learning by doing. 

YELP Holistic Hub First Business Plan identifies -

a)         not just the above six potentially modifiable risk factors but Fifteen Problems resulting from the Causes of which Negligent Lifestyle Behaviour, in particular Craving Harmful Habitual Stress Releases and Sedentary Lifestyle, dominate; and

b)         Fifteen Benefits Of Materially Altered Lifestyle which will achieve a Forecast Return On YELP Capex for every dollar expended by the YELP  SPV at least tenfold over and above the YELP  SPV's  Capex within 5 years and likely to swell primarily due to the increasingly deleterious effect of Climate Change and burgeoning rates of Obesity.

The Second National Preventive Health Research Programme known as the Bohemian Teenagers Arts Assistance Programme for the Seven Purposes Of Second BTAAP Business Plan has a Forecast Return On Aggregate BTAAP Capex of 250% over 10 years.  That means that for each $1 expended by the Three BTAAP SPVs over the initial 10 years from the 'Final Launch Date', the reduction in the >$155b Negligent Lifestyle Annual Costs of Fifteen Problems will reduce by $2.50.