Background Food pricing strategies have been proposed to encourage healthy eating
habits, which may in turn help stem global increases in non-communicable diseases. This …

Climate protection and other environmental concerns render it critical that diets and
agriculture systems become more sustainable. Mathematical optimization techniques can …

Objective Global health challenges include non-communicable disease burdens, ensuring
food security in the context of rising food prices, and environmental constraints around food …

Objective Diabetes is responsible for considerable morbidity, healthcare utilisation and
mortality in both developed and developing countries. Currently, methods of treating …

Background Countries are increasingly considering how to reduce or even end tobacco
consumption, and raising tobacco taxes is a potential strategy to achieve these goals. We …

Background One possible policy response to the burden of diet-related disease is food taxes
and subsidies, but the net health gains of these approaches are uncertain because of …

Objective There is growing international interest in advancing 'the tobacco endgame'. We
use New Zealand (Smokefree goal for 2025) as a case study to model the impacts on …

Background Given the high importance of dietary sodium (salt) as a global disease risk
factor, our objective was to compare the impact of eight sodium reduction interventions …

Background Myocardial infarction mortality has declined since the 1970s, but contemporary
drivers of this trend remain unexplained. The aim of this study was to compare the …

Background Since there is some evidence that the density and distribution of tobacco retail
outlets may influence smoking behaviours, we aimed to estimate the impacts of 4 tobacco …