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BMJ Global Health<\/a> has published<\/a> a series of research papers on health taxes in the October 2023 issue\u00a0titled WHO: Health Taxes<\/a> supported by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research<\/a> in collaboration with WHO Departments and the Inter-Agency Working Group on Health Taxes.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE THE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Health taxes can save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. However, they directly conflict with commercial actors\u2019 interests. Both pro-tax health advocates and anti-tax industry representatives seek to frame health tax policy. A lack of appreciation for political challenges can hamper national adaptation and adoption of health taxes. There is increasing recognition of the need to explore political economy factors \u2013 while any health policy process is inherently political, applying health policy and political economy analysis can improve policy design and accelerate implementation.<\/p>\n The series is a result of the establishment of a research programme to provide health policy analysis for health taxes in eight low- and middle-income countries in 2021 with research teams in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru and Viet Nam. The programme developed case studies examining how political economy factors influence and frame health taxes design, adoption and implementation.<\/p>\n