Fiscal incentives, behavior change and health promotion: What place in the health-in-all-policies toolkit?

Health Promotion International

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages i103-i112

  Sassi, Franco ^a   Belloni, Annalisa ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

alcohol; economic analysis; food; health promoting policies; tobacco

Indexed keywords

DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SMOKING; TAX;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; DIET; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; SMOKING; TAXES;

EID: 84908278545     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dau050     Document Type: Article

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