UID:
almahu_9949591325902882
Format:
1 online resource (528 p.)
ISBN:
9781800612396
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1800612397
Content:
"Virtually all fiscal measures influence people's health, through their impacts on behaviour, consumption, income and wealth. A narrow subset of fiscal measures, however, can be more directly aimed at improving health by targeting behaviours and risks that are known to be strongly associated with health outcomes. The purpose of this book is to discuss the subject of these measures, which we define as "health taxes". The book aims to enumerate key health taxes of interest, explore their positive and negative effects, and how these effects are influenced by the design of these taxes and the context in which they are applied. We ask how and where they can be implemented. Critically, we build an argument throughout the book for why policymakers across government should care about health taxes"--
Note:
"World Health Organization."
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Introduction --The place for health taxes in the wider fiscal system -- Protecting and promoting health through taxation: evidence and gaps -- Supply-side responses to health taxes -- Special Focus 1: The UK soft drinks industry levy as an incentive for beverage reformulation -- The labour market impact of health taxes -- Impacts of health taxes on the attainment of the SDGs --Expanding health taxation to other unhealthy behaviours and harmful activities -- The design of effective health taxes -- Special Focus 2: Health taxes and illicit trade: evidence and courses of action -- Public governance and financing, and earmarking health taxes -- Special Focus 3: Managing the politics of earmarked health taxes -- Monitoring and measuring health taxes -- Health taxes and trade law -- A political economy analysis of health taxes -- Special Focus 4: The role of civil society in tobacco tax reform in the Philippines -- The future of health taxes: helping it happen.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Language:
English
Keywords:
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