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ArticlePublication 2022Distributional Effects of Tobacco Tax Increases across Mexico: An ECEA
This study examines the distributional impacts of a one-peso tobacco tax increase in Mexico, focusing …
This study examines the distributional impacts of a one-peso tobacco tax increase in Mexico, focusing on health, poverty, and financial outcomes at the subnational level. Utilizing an extended cost-effectiveness analysis, the research estimates various metrics such as life-years gained, smoking attributable deaths averted, treatment costs averted, and financial impacts by income group across five regions. Findings reveal that the tax increase would lead to significant benefits, including approximately 1.5 million smokers quitting across the regions,…
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ArticlePublication 2019Health & Financial Benefits of Tobacco Taxes in Colombia: Results from a Modelling Study
Using extended cost-effectiveness analysis methods, the authors assessed the distributional impact across socioeconomic groups of …
Using extended cost-effectiveness analysis methods, the authors assessed the distributional impact across socioeconomic groups of a tax on tobacco on selected health and financial outcomes in Colombia. They estimated over a 20 year time period the years of life gained with smoking cessation and the increased tax revenues, associated with a 70% relative price increase of the pack of cigarettes. The authors predict that over 20 years, the tax increase would lead to over 190,000…
Latin America & Caribbean | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Chronic Disease/Risk | Social Determinants | Policy/Regulation | Health/Medicine
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