Real price and affordability as challenges for effective tobacco control policies: An analysis for Argentina

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 98-103

  Rodríguez Iglesias, Germán ^a   González Rozada, Martín ^b   Champagne, Beatriz Marcet ^c   Schoj, Verónica ^a  

^a Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón Argentina ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

^c InterAmerican Heart Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Economics; Health public policy; Income; Indicators; Taxation of the tobacco derived products; Taxes; Tobacco products

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; PRICE DETERMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

ARGENTINA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ARGENTINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; POVERTY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TRENDS;

ARGENTINA; COMMERCE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCOME; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; POVERTY; SMOKING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84929001051     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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