Cost-effective design of economic instruments in nutrition policy
Cost-effective design of economic instruments in nutrition policy
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DOI：
10.1186/1479-5868-4-10
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发表时间：
2007-04-04
影响因子：
8.7
通讯作者：
Smed, Sinne
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作者：
Jensen, Jorgen D.;Smed, Sinne
本文探讨了利用经济调控，如税收或补贴，作为手段来解决日益严重的不适当饮食问题的可能性，这些问题在大多数国家导致肥胖症、2型糖尿病、心血管疾病等健康问题。此类政策措施可被视为其他监管手段的替代或补充，包括宣传运动、禁令或加强肥胖或相关疾病问题的技术解决方案。定量分析了7种不同的粮食税和补贴手段或手段组合。分析表明，如果税收/补贴针对某些营养素，与针对某些食品类别相比，改变这些营养素摄入量的平均成本效益可提高10%至30%。最后，本文提出了一系列问题，需要进一步调查，才能得出确切的结论，在营养政策的经济手段的适用性。
This paper addresses the potential for using economic regulation, e.g. taxes or subsidies, as instruments to combat the increasing problems of inappropriate diets, leading to health problems such as obesity, diabetes 2, cardiovascular diseases etc. in most countries. Such policy measures may be considered as alternatives or supplements to other regulation instruments, including information campaigns, bans or enhancement of technological solutions to the problems of obesity or related diseases. 7 different food tax and subsidy instruments or combinations of instruments are analysed quantitatively. The analyses demonstrate that the average cost-effectiveness with regard to changing the intake of selected nutritional variables can be improved by 10-30 per cent if taxes/subsidies are targeted against these nutrients, compared with targeting selected food categories. Finally, the paper raises a range of issues, which need to be investigated further, before firm conclusions about the suitability of economic instruments in nutrition policy can be drawn.