Improving Health and Building Wealth: PHLP on Fiscal Policies for Obesity Prevention
September 14, 2011

PHLP executive director Marice Ashe was one of five invited leaders to contribute a commentary on how to address the obesity crisis for this month’s “Think Tank,” a roundtable on heath care policy convened by the California HealthCare Foundation. She urges new fiscal policies, such as taxes and local government incentives, that not only stem obesity rates but also build new sources of revenue.