Exploring Tax Policy to Advance Population Health, Health Equity, and Economic Prosperity Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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The roundtable's vision is of a strong, healthful, and productive society that cultivates human capital and equal opportunity. This vision rests on the ecognition that outcomes such r as improved life expectancy, quality of life, and health for all are shaped by interdependent social, economic, environmental, genetic, behavioral, and health care factors, and that achieving this vision will require national and community-based policies and dependable resources.
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(The planning committee's Statement of Task is provided in Box 1-1.) The goals of the workshop, as explained by Milstein, were to help participants understand what has been done and what might be done next with regard to tax policies that affect population health, and to enhance the fiscal fluency of participants so they might become more confident proponents 3 As of March 2016, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sci ences, Engineering, and Medicine continues the consensus studies and convening activities previously carried out by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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examine several examples to discuss how tax policies can be designed both to attract willing investors and to advance a range of health and economic goals, while also noting any insights about pitfalls to avoid; and (4) identify the practical conditions that either enable or impede the use of tax policy in particular contexts, including critical capacities that are needed to assure more dependable resources for health and well-being across sectors (e.g., education, housing, economic development)
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;4 • Examine several examples to discuss how tax policies can be designed both to attract willing investors and to advance a range of health and economic goals, while also noting any insights about pitfalls to avoid; and • Equip each participant with the basic knowledge and language to further explore how to advance tax policy in favor of health and well-being across sectors (e.g., education, housing, economic development)
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Several were "extremely confident," and about one-third were "not very confident."6 The majority of expert presentations were conversational in style, directly engaging participants. The first session of the workshop pro vided an overview of the basics of tax policy, which was followed by 6 Responses to the second question were reported by Milstein based on a show of hands, due to technical issues with the polling website.
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. Over the lunch break, a moderated Twitter chat kept the conversation flowing.7 In the afternoon, participants broke into small groups to propose hypothetical tax policies to support a statewide wellness fund (or other broad-based funding approach)
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