Fiscal food policy: Equity and practice

Perspectives in Public Health

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 157-158

  Nicholls, Stuart G ^a   Gwozdz, Wencke ^b   Reisch, Lucia A ^b   Voigt, Kristin ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PURCHASING; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL STATUS; TAX;

DENMARK; FOOD; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; TAXES;

EID: 79961139363     PISSN: 17579139     EISSN: 17579147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757913911412479     Document Type: Note

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