Objective
Health issues are of major concern not just in under developed countries but also in many countries in Europe. Poor diet is a prime cause of heart disease, cancer and other diseases. As consumers become more aware of health risks associated with certain foods the results will alter the demand for agricultural goods. Agricultural policy in turn can influence the health issues through the impact of agricultural farm gate prices on retail prices. An important influence will be the extent of dissemination of consumer health information.
The objectives can be summarised as:
a) to quantify the impact of health initiatives on diets thereby allowing health authorities to be able to evaluate how much expenditure can justifiably be spent on such schemes;
b) to determine the long term impacts on the demand for specific foodstuffs to be determined and the knock on effects to agriculture;
c) to indirectly evaluate agricultural policy as an instrument of promoting better health among the populations of Europe;
d) to determine how farmers react to health schemes through evaluating how the attributes of different foodstuffs change as a result of such initiatives;
e) to develope econometric methodology for the development of policy issues relating to health.
Methodology to be applied
The approach used will be based on economic theories and will not be a mixed discipline approach. The method of analysis will be the development and estimation of an almost ideal demand system (AIDS) extended for prior health information using data stretching back over twenty years or more. No surveys will be necessary. For creating the health index extensive use will be made of data bases that are capable of being searched by computer but supplemented in some cases by manual reading of abstracts in. The development of indexes of consumer health information is one that is developing in the U.S. Its integration into an almost ideal demand model is a new development for Europe although work has been carried out into AIDS models.
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- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technology
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusesHIV
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
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United Kingdom