Modelling the health impact of food taxes and subsidies with price elasticities: The case for additional scaling of food consumption using the total food expenditure elasticity.

Modelling the health impact of food taxes and subsidies with price elasticities: The case for additional scaling of food consumption using the total food expenditure elasticity.

<h4>Background</h4>Food taxes and subsidies are one intervention to address poor diets. Price elasticity (PE) matrices are commonly used to model the change in food purchasing. Usually a PE matrix is generated in one setting then applied to another setting with differing starting consump...

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Main Authors: Tony Blakely, Nhung Nghiem, Murat Genc, Anja Mizdrak, Linda Cobiac, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Boyd Swinburn, Peter Scarborough, Christine Cleghorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230506

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