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oapen-20.500.12657-613662024-03-27T14:14:30Z Health Taxes Lauer, Jeremy A. Sassi, Franco Soucat, Agnès Vigo, Angeli Economics & Finance;Health Economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies 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. 2023-02-17T13:33:18Z 2023-02-17T13:33:18Z 2023 book 9781800612402 9781800612389 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61366 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9781800612396.pdf World Scientific Publishing Company World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd 10.1142/Q0365 10.1142/Q0365 af1172b5-c0c7-4a09-866a-f0f09d9798ec 9781800612402 9781800612389 World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd 528 Singapore open access
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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.
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