Economic instruments for population diet and physical activity behaviour change: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unhealthy diet and low levels of physical activity are common behavioural factors in the aetiology of many non-communicable diseases. Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of policy and research interest in the use of taxes and other economic instruments to improve population health.

Objective

To assemble, configure and analyse empirical research studies available to inform the public health case for using economic instruments to promote dietary and physical activity behaviour change.

Methods

We conducted a systematic scoping review of evidence for the effects of specific interventions to change, or general exposure to variations in, prices or income on dietary and physical activity behaviours and corollary outcomes. Systematic electronic searches and para

SUBMITTER: Shemilt I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3782495 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature