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23 avril 2012
- handle: 10670/1.t7elq5
- hal: hal-00690325
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Social transmission Health capital Chronic diseases and obesity Social transmission. H - Public Economics/H.H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue/H.H2.H21 - Efficiency • Optimal Taxation H - Public Economics/H.H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue/H.H2.H23 - Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I1 - Health/I.I1.I18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public HealthSujets proches
Duties Fee system (Taxation) Taxation, Incidence of Tax reform Tax policy Taxes Wellness Personal health NCDs (Noncommunicable diseases) Noncommunicable diseases Non-infectious diseases Diseases, Chronic Non-communicable diseases Biography--HealthCiter ce document
Catarina Goulao et al., « Intergenerational transmission of non-communicable chronic diseases », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.t7elq5
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We introduce a theoretical framework that contributes to the understanding of non-communicable chronic diseases' (NCDs) epidemics: even if NCDs are non-infectious diseases, they may spread due to the social transmission of unhealthy activities such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and smoking. In particular, we study the intergener- ational dimension of this mechanism. We find that, due to the social transmission of NCDs, agents choose lower health conditions and higher unhealthy activities than what is socially optimal. Taxes on unhealthy activities, that may subsidize health investments, can be used to restore the social optimum. Finally, our model is consistent with the existence of regional asymmetries regarding the prevalence of obesity and NCDs.