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Lifestyle, health and social justice. The case of ‘ obesitax ’.

Lifestyle, health and social justice. The case of ‘ obesitax ’. Prof. Dr. Ignaas Devisch Artevelde University College/ Ghent University. Recent evolution in public health policy. Food taxes seem logic but…. What is healthy food? Is it effective ?

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Lifestyle, health and social justice. The case of ‘ obesitax ’.

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  1. Lifestyle, health and social justice. The case of ‘obesitax’. Prof. Dr. IgnaasDevisch Artevelde University College/Ghent University

  2. Recent evolution in public health policy

  3. Food taxesseem logic but… • What is healthy food? • Is iteffective? • Whoseresponsibility is food (and) environment? • Differencebetweenchoicesandcircumstances? • Whataboutindividualautonomy? • Is itsociallyjust?

  4. United Nations, Human Rights Council, 26 December 2011 • The introduction of food taxes and subsidies to promote a healthy diet constitutes a cost-effective and low-cost population-wide intervention that can have a significant impact • The standard concern is that they could penalize the poorest segment of the population, who spend proportionally more of their incomes on food and often are pushed into adopting unhealthy diets. • The poor are penalized for being poor Nineteenth sessionAgenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to developmentReport submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter

  5. Lifestyle: style is never out of life. Bioethics at a Critical Juncture Fat intake has been a growing public health concern for more than fourtyyears and despite the enormous scientific and political investigations to face it, not only the problem still worsens, it also strikes lower social classes harder. Consequently, there is an urgent need of innovative and creativepolicy to face the increasing challenge of overweight and obesity in our society. (DevischIgnaas and DeveugeleMyriam, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 19: 550-558)

  6. A few out of manyopportunitiesfor health policy andSocial work • ‘nudging’: changing individual health choices from the perspective of social justice (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008) • Capabilities instead of chances (A. Sen) • Cooking sessions in local communities • Decreasing prices of healthy food instead of increasing unhealthy food • Co-responsibility government, food industry and citizens

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