The health, financial and distributional consequences of increases in the tobacco excise tax among smokers in Lebanon

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue , 2016, Pages 161-169

  Salti, Nisreen ^a   Brouwer, Elizabeth ^b   Verguet, Stéphane ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional consequences; Equity; Extended cost effectiveness analysis; Financial risk protection; Lebanon; Tobacco taxation

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUITY; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PUBLIC SPENDING; SAVINGS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; TAX SYSTEM; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXCISE TAX; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; POVERTY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; SMOKING; SMOKING REGULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; TAX; TOBACCO; ECONOMICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRODUCT SAFETY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

LEBANON;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SMOKERS; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84992650152     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.020     Document Type: Article

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