Modelling the health impact of food taxes and subsidies with price elasticities: The case for additional scaling of food consumption using the total food expenditure elasticity

• Tony Blakely ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ablakely@unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliations Population Interventions Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6995-4369

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• Nhung Nghiem,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Murat Genc,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Anja Mizdrak,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Linda Cobiac,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Cliona Ni Mhurchu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Health Innovation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Boyd Swinburn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Peter Scarborough,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Christine Cleghorn

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

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