Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Public Health
Taking A Bite out of the Big Apple
Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act requires certain restaurants to report calorie information on menu boards beginning March 23, 2011; New York City recently implemented a similar law. On March 31, 2008, an amended New York City regulation became Continue Reading …
A New View on Tobacco Taxation
Economic viewpoints on tobacco taxation typically seek to correct for the externailities imposed upon citizens by tobacco smokers. This new analysis seeks to account for these externalities, plus those incurred by family members of smokers, and assumes that smokers do Continue Reading …
The Big Apple’s fight over calorie content
The New York City Health Department sought to address the obesity epidemic by requiring certain restaurants to publicize nutritional information. The federal Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989 mandated the inclusion of nutritional information on all packaged foods, but Continue Reading …