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ProfessorMarisaMiraldo

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Professor in Health Economics and Policy
 
 
 
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@article{Goiana-Da-Silva:2020:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00110,
author = {Goiana-Da-Silva, K and Cruz-e-Silva, D and Bartlett, O and Vasconcelos, J and Nunes, AM and Ashrafian, H and Miraldo, M and do, Céu Machado M and Araújo, F and Darzi, A},
doi = {10.3389/fpubh.2020.00110},
journal = {Frontiers in Public Health},
title = {The ethics of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages to improve public health},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00110},
volume = {8},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The World Health Organization highlights fiscal policies as priority interventions for the promotion of healthy eating in its Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases. The taxation of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) in particular is noted to be an effective measure, and SSBs taxes have already been implemented in several countries worldwide. However, although the evidence base suggests that this will be effective in helping to combat rising obesity rates, opponents of SSBs taxation argue that it is illiberal and paternalistic, and therefore should be avoided. Bioethical analysis may play an essential role in clarifying whether policymakers should adopt SSBs taxes as part of wider obesity strategy. In this article we argue that no single ethical theory can account for the complexities inherent in obesity prevention strategy, especially the liberal theories relied upon by opponents of SSBs taxation. We contend that a pluralist approach to the ethics of SSBs taxation must be adopted as the only suitable way of accounting for the multiple overlapping, and sometimes, conflicting factors that are relevant to determining the moral acceptability of such an intervention.
AU  - Goiana-Da-Silva,K
AU  - Cruz-e-Silva,D
AU  - Bartlett,O
AU  - Vasconcelos,J
AU  - Nunes,AM
AU  - Ashrafian,H
AU  - Miraldo,M
AU  - do,Céu Machado M
AU  - Araújo,F
AU  - Darzi,A
DO  - 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00110
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 2296-2565
TI  - The ethics of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages to improve public health
T2  - Frontiers in Public Health
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00110
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78945
VL  - 8
ER  -
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