The New Zealand Initiative is starting a new research project on public health and lifestyle regulation. As with all our research projects, we’ll be engaging with a wide range of stakeholders in the sector as part of the research process. Here’s the general brief (available in our research agenda) of what we are aiming to do:
The problem
Individual decisions around health risks like diet and exercise can cost the public purse through the public health system. Because of this, we hear calls for regulating health-related behaviours through better nutrition and more exercise. But if everything we do affects our health and could impose costs on the public purse, are there any limits to the scope of lifestyle regulation?
Our research
We will investigate the extent to which costs on the public health system constitute a real market failure – and justify regulation. We will survey the international literature…
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