Cost-Effectiveness of Fiscal Policies to Prevent Obesity
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Cost-Effectiveness of Fiscal Policies to Prevent Obesity
Cost-effective, sustainable strategies are urgently required to curb the global obesity epidemic. To date, fiscal policies such as taxes and subsidies have been driven largely by imperatives to raise revenue or increase supply, rather than to change population behaviours. This paper reviews the economic evaluation literature around the use of fiscal policies to prevent obesity. The cost-effecti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Obesity Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2162-4968
DOI: 10.1007/s13679-013-0062-y