ReviewLancet (London, England)2018
Equity impacts of price policies to promote healthy behaviours.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 155 citations in OpenAlex.
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- How to Fix a Broken Health Care System: Pathways to Maximize Health and Well-being for All.Diabetes care · 2026Review
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- Refined carbohydrates and the overfat pandemic: implications for brain health and public health policy.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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- Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century.Lancet (London, England) · 2024Review
- Future burden of myocardial infarction in Australia: impact on health outcomes between 2019 and 2038.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2024Article
- Framing health taxes: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Considerations for modelling a broad food tax in the Philippines and other low-income and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2023Review
- An examination of Ireland's sugar sweetened beverage tax (sugar tax) in practice.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- The role of taxation measures in the management of harmful products, services, and practices in Iran: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Estimating the impact of nutrition and physical activity policies with quasi-experimental methods and simulation modelling: an integrative review of methods, challenges and synergies.European journal of public health · 2022Review
- Adherence to dietary guidelines and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 94 184 individuals.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
- Linking health and finance ministries to improve taxes on unhealthy products.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2022Article
- Health Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, Food and Drinks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review of Policy Content, Actors, Process and Context.International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Public Support for the Imposition of a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and the Determinants of Such Support in Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Governments can use fiscal policies to regulate the prices and consumption of potentially unhealthy products. However, policies aimed at reducing consumption by increasing prices, for example by taxation, might impose an unfair financial burden on low-income households. We used data from household expenditure surveys to estimate patterns of expenditure on potentially unhealthy products by socioeconomic status, with a primary focus on low-income and middle-income countries. Price policies affect the consumption and expenditure of a larger number of high-income households than low-income households, and any resulting price increases tend to be financed disproportionately by high-income households. As a share of all household consumption, however, price increases are often a larger financial burden for low-income households than for high-income households, most consistently in the case of tobacco, depending on how much consumption decreases in response to increased prices. Large health benefits often accrue to individual low-income consumers because of their strong response to price changes. The potentially larger financial burden on low-income households created by taxation could be mitigated by a pro-poor use of the generated tax revenues.
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