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

<p><strong>Background:</strong>&nbsp;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 wit...

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Main Authors: Blakely, T, Nghiem, N, Genc, M, Mizdrak, A, Cobiac, L, Mhurchu, CN, Swinburn, B, Scarborough, P, Cleghorn, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2020