Fat Taxes in the EU Between Fiscal Austerity and the Fight Against Obesity

Alemanno, Alberto; Carreño, Ignacio

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“…These nutrients have been shown to be partly responsible for the high risk of ischaemic heart disease, obesity etc. (Alemanno and Carreño, 2011;Marshall et al, 2000). Our results reinforces the use of fat and sugar taxes to combat health related diseases in countries such Denmark (Smed et al, 2016) and Mexico (Colchero et al, 2016).…”

Section: Model Estimation and Nutrient Elasticitiessupporting

confidence: 78%

Internalizing the public cost of obesity in Spain: Distributional effects on nutrient intake

Dogbe¹,

Gil²

2020

Journal of Policy Modeling

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Section: Model Estimation and Nutrient Elasticitiessupporting

confidence: 78%

Internalizing the public cost of obesity in Spain: Distributional effects on nutrient intake

Dogbe¹,

Gil²

2020

Journal of Policy Modeling

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“…To promote healthy diets, policies to reduce the price of healthy foods may be considered in urban Africa. Existing fiscal and regulatory measures that use pricing to make unhealthy foods unattractive, unaffordable, and ultimately unavailable, may be considered [ 38 , 42 , 43 ], although a thorough assessment of the impact of such policies on the urban poor would be necessary prior to introducing legislation. Mandatory food labelling could be introduced to inform consumers about the nutrient content of processed, packaged foods.…”

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confidence: 99%

The African urban food environment framework for creating healthy nutrition policy and interventions in urban Africa

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This study developed, validated, and evaluated a framework of factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban African food environments, to inform research prioritisation and intervention development in Africa. A multi-component methodology, drawing on concept mapping, was employed to construct a framework of factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban Africa. The framework adapted a widely used socio-ecological model (developed in a high-income country context) and was developed using a mixed-methods research approach that comprised: i. Evidence synthesis consisting of a systematic review of 39 papers covering 14 African countries; ii. Qualitative interview data collected for adolescents and adults (n = 144) using photovoice in urban Ghana and Kenya; and iii. Consultation with interdisciplinary African experts (n = 71) from 27 countries, who contributed to at least one step of the framework (creation, validation/evaluation, finalisation). The final framework included 103 factors influencing dietary behaviours. Experts identified the factors influencing dietary behaviours across all the four levels of the food environment i.e. the individual, social, physical and macro levels. Nearly half (n = 48) were individual-level factors and just under a quarter (n = 26) were at the macro environmental level. Fewer factors associated with social (n = 15) and physical (14) environments were identified. At the macro level, the factors ranked as most important were food prices, cultural beliefs and seasonality. Factors ranked as important at the social level were household composition, family food habits and dietary practices. The type of food available in the neighbourhood and convenience were seen as important at the physical level, while individual food habits, food preferences and socioeconomic status were ranked highly at the individual level. About half of the factors (n = 54) overlap with those reported in an existing socio-ecological food environment framework developed in a high-income country context. A further 49 factors were identified that were not reported in the selected high-income country framework, underlining the importance of contextualisation. Our conceptual framework offers a useful tool for research to understand dietary transitions in urban African adolescents and adults, as well as identification of factors to intervene when promoting healthy nutritious diets to prevent multiple forms of malnutrition.

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“…Some of the policy instruments in this document were first used in tobacco control, [5,25]. The EU has made similar recommendations [33].…”

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Multilevel governance, public health and the regulation of food: is tobacco control policy a model?

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Cairney

2019

J Public Health Pol

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Campaigns against risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) caused by smoking and obesity have become increasingly common on multiple levels of government, from the local to the international. Nongovernmental actors have cooperated with government bodies to make policies. By analyzing the policies of the World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, European Union, and United Kingdom and United States governments, we identify how the struggles between public health advocates and commercial interests reached the global level, and how the relatively successful fight to 'denormalize' tobacco consumption has become a model for anti-obesity advocates. It highlights three factors important in policy change: framing the policy problem, the policymaking environment, and 'windows of opportunity' -to analyse the struggle between 'harm regulation' and 'neoprohibition' approaches to an international obesity prevention regime.Nutrition has become a recognized policy problem globally over the past few decades, primarily with reference to obesity, but also excessive salt consumption. In the UK, the British Medical Association [3] connects poor diet to 41% of all deaths from cardiovascular disease, and Steel et al [4] attribute over 40% of 'years of life lost' to foodrelated causes, including poor diet and high blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose levels. Questions about the relationship between nutrition and health, especially calorie-

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Fat Taxes in the EU Between Fiscal Austerity and the Fight Against Obesity

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Internalizing the public cost of obesity in Spain: Distributional effects on nutrient intake

Internalizing the public cost of obesity in Spain: Distributional effects on nutrient intake

The African urban food environment framework for creating healthy nutrition policy and interventions in urban Africa

Multilevel governance, public health and the regulation of food: is tobacco control policy a model?

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