By: Brendan White@twitter
I'd like to know more about Michael Shaoul's idea of the consumer metaphor–I can't track down his dissertation on ProQuest. Are there other resources for this consumer citizen idea? I have been meaning...
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View ArticleBy: Multiphasic
The perfect balance between punitive, incentive, and structural-change policies for public health intervention is an ongoing debate, and like any human processes, it is a dynamic one. Yes, there are...
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@Multiphasic A very thoughtful comment, thank you. It may be of interest that in another session on intervention and policy that one of the strongest proponents of soda taxes, Frank Chaloupka, conceded...
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@Brendan White@twitter @Brendan White@twitter It's a big debate at least in Britain when it comes to public management: are we citizens with rights, or consumers who deserve satisfaction and value for...
View ArticleBy: Vasanti Malik
Thank you for the insightful piece! I would just like to add a few points, which I think are imperative to the argument at hand. First, there are a number of strong observational studies supporting an...
View ArticleBy: Trevor Butterworth@twitter
@Vasanti Malik Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, these studies were embargoed until after the debate had taken place – which is a shame as it didn't allow the debaters to incorporate or...
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Are you the Vasanti S. Malik who is a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition and a co-author with Frank Hu on several papers?
View ArticleBy: NBMaggie
Perhaps I am in error in my assumption that banning/taxing any food item coats it with a layer of allure it would not otherwise possess. There is another approach: teach nutrition based on research to...
View ArticleBy: Trevor Butterworth@twitter
There are two problems with taxing foods. The first is that it assumes that a tax sends a signal to the consumer that this is something they shouldn't consume; but this assumes we think rationally...
View ArticleBy: Evelyn Peppas@facebook
"When New York City's public schools trumpeted their removal of whole milk from lunch menus as a method of tackling childhood obesity, they neglected to mention that kids switched to drinking fat-free...
View ArticleBy: Evelyn Peppas@facebook
@NBMaggie Love this comment. I agree – School Food has subsidies for meat and dairy products mostly, and more subsidized produce would really encourage healthier meal planning. Luckily, School Food has...
View ArticleBy: Trevor Butterworth@twitter
@Evelyn Peppas@facebook Thanks for this – yes, I wrote about this issue in much more detail for Forbes way back when. A couple of interesting points: kids don't really like low or skimmed milk without...
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@Trevor Butterworth@twitter Thanks so much for your response. I'm interested to read your article in Forbes. Will definitely check it out.
View ArticleBy: Trevor Butterworth@twitter
@Evelyn Peppas@facebook Actually, my mistake, I first wrote about this on STATS.org. I've referenced it several times since in various places....
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