Taxation and economic incentives

Sassi, Franco; Belloni, Annalisa; Capobianco, Chiara; Alemanno, Alberto

doi:10.1017/cbo9781107478114.008

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“…Healthcare costs are used to illustrate the societal burden of obesity and to justify state intervention to reduce (financial) harm to the collective ( Yang and Nichols, 2011 ; Kass et al ., 2014 ). The state has legitimate interest in addressing problems that create collectivized costs: that the productivity of the workforce is decreased by ill health ( Mello, 2012 ; Herington et al ., 2014 ; Falbe, 2020 ); that healthcare costs are too high [24 ]; or that taxes generate revenue for government ( Sassi et al ., 2014 ).…”

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Understanding the role of the state in dietary public health policymaking: a critical scoping review

Karreman,

Huang,

Egan

et al. 2023

Health Promotion International

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Despite evidence that dietary population health interventions are effective and widely accepted, they remain the topic of intense debate centring on the appropriate role of the state. This review sought to identify how the role of the state in intervening in individuals’ food practices is conceptualized across a wide range of literatures. We searched 10 databases and 4 journals for texts that debated dietary population health interventions designed to affect individuals’ health-affecting food practices. Two co-authors independently screened these texts for eligibility relative to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Thirty-five texts formed our final corpus. Through critical reflexive thematic analysis (TA), we generated 6 themes and 2 subthemes concerning choice, responsibility for health, balancing benefits and burdens of intervention, the use of evidence, fairness, and the legitimacy of the state’s actions. Our analysis found that narratives that aim to prevent effective regulation are entrenched in academic literatures. Discourses that emphasized liberty and personal responsibility framed poor health as the result of ‘lifestyle choices’. Utilitarian, cost-benefit rationales pervaded arguments about how to best balance the benefits and burdens of state intervention. Claims about fairness and freedom were used to evoke powerful common meanings, and evidence was used politically to bolster interests, particularly those of the food industry. This review identifies and critically analyses key arguments for and against population dietary public health policies. Our findings should motivate public health researchers and practitioners to avoid unreflexively embracing framings that draw on the languages and logics of free market economics.

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Understanding the role of the state in dietary public health policymaking: a critical scoping review

Karreman,

Huang,

Egan

et al. 2023

Health Promotion International

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“…At any time an obese person incurs at least 30% higher medical expenditures than someone of a healthy weight 3. Fiscal measures have a legitimate place in the public health policy toolkit,4 and several countries have chosen to use taxes on foods and non-alcoholic beverages in an attempt to improve the quality of people’s diets and curb the spread of obesity 5. Mexico was one of the latest to join this group, when in 2014 it launched a comprehensive strategy to fight an obesity problem that has reached extraordinary proportions.…”

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