ArticleBMJ global health2023
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana.
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- Beyond the sugar tax: public acceptability of a comprehensive food policy bundle in urban Ghana.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Trends in sales of sugar-sweetened beverages and associated type 2 diabetes burden in nine African countries: an ecological time-series analysis.Global health action · 2025Article
- New health taxes in Ghana: a qualitative study exploring potential public support.Health policy and planning · 2025Article
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- Evaluation of an intervention limiting food industry influence on public food policy processes in Ghana.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Nutrition transition's latest stage: Are ultra-processed food increases in low- and middle-income countries dooming our preschoolers' diets and future health?Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Individual-Level Drivers of Food Choices and Diet Quality Among Adolescents in Urban West Africa: Evidence From Accra, Ghana.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
Amidst high burden of infectious diseases, undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are predicted to become the leading cause of death in Ghana by 2030. NCDs are driven, to a large extent, by unhealthy food environments. Concerned, the Ghana Ministry of Health (MOH) has since 2012 sought to garner the support of all to address this challenge. We aimed to support the MOH to address the challenge through public health policy measures, but would soon be reminded that longstanding challenges to policy development such as data poverty, and policy inertia needed to be addressed. To do this, the we generated the needed evidence, curated the evidence, and availed the evidence to Ghanaian policymakers, researchers and civil society actors. Thus, we addressed the problem of data poverty using context-relevant research, and policy inertia through advocacy and scholar activism. In this paper, we share how a public interest coalition used context-relevant research, evidence-informed advocacy and scholar activism to valorise and increase demand for healthy food policy (including food-related health taxes) in Ghana.
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