Equity impacts of price policies to promote healthy behaviours

The Lancet

Volumn 391, Issue 10134, 2018, Pages 2059-2070

  Sassi, Franco ^a   Belloni, Annalisa ^b   Mirelman, Andrew J ^c   Suhrcke, Marc ^c,d   Thomas, Alastair ^e   Salti, Nisreen ^f   Vellakkal, Sukumar ^g   Visaruthvong, Chonlathan ^h   Popkin, Barry M ⁱ   Nugent, Rachel ^j  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SOCIO ECONOMIC RESEARCH LISER   (Luxembourg)

^e OECD   (France)

^f AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^g BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^h Ministry of Finance   (Thailand)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^j RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; TAX; TOBACCO; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 85044870380     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30531-2     Document Type: Review

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