Simulating the impact on health of internalising the cost of carbon in food prices combined with a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Briggs, Adam D M ^a   Kehlbacher, Ariane ^b   Tiffin, Richard ^b   Scarborough, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diet; Non communicable disease; Social cost of carbon; Sustainability; Tax

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; SWEETENING AGENT;

BEVERAGE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; TAX; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BEVERAGES; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; COMMERCE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; SWEETENING AGENTS; TAXES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84957426912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-2723-8     Document Type: Article

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