Barriers and facilitators to the introduction of import duties designed to prevent noncommunicable disease in Tonga: a case study

doi:10.1186/s12992-021-00788-z

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Barriers and facilitators to the introduction of import duties designed to prevent noncommunicable disease in Tonga: a case study

Bell, Colin, Latu, C, Na’ati, E, Snowdon, W, Moodie, Marj and Waqa, G 2021, Barriers and facilitators to the introduction of import duties designed to prevent noncommunicable disease in Tonga: a case study, Globalization and Health, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00788-z.

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Title	Barriers and facilitators to the introduction of import duties designed to prevent noncommunicable disease in Tonga: a case study
Author(s)	Bell, Colin orcid.org/0000-0003-2731-9858 Latu, C Na’ati, E Snowdon, W Moodie, Marj orcid.org/0000-0001-6890-5250 Waqa, G
Journal name	Globalization and Health
Volume number	17
Issue number	1
Article ID	ARTN 136
Start page	1
End page	10
Total pages	10
Publisher	BMC
Place of publication	London, Eng
Publication date	2021
ISSN	1744-8603 1744-8603
Keyword(s)	COUNTRIES Food policy HEALTH-POLICY ANALYSIS Import duty Life Sciences & Biomedicine non-communicable disease Nutrition PACIFIC ISLANDS Policy development Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Science & Technology Tonga Import duty, non-communicable disease
Summary	Abstract Background In Tonga, import duties were lowered on tinned fish and seafood in 2013 and raised on soft drinks, dripping and other animal fats. Additional import duties were applied to soft drinks and dripping and other fats in 2016 and duties were also applied to high fat meats, mutton flaps and turkey tails. The objective of this study was to describe barriers to and facilitators of these import duties from a policy-maker perspective. Methods A case study was conducted to analyse implementation of policies originally modelled by the Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project to reduce mortality in the Kingdom of Tonga. Policymakers (n = 15) from the Ministries of Revenue, Health, Finance and Labour and Commerce involved in the development and implementation of Tonga’s food-related policies participated in key-informant interviews. Results The main facilitator of import duties were strong leadership and management, cross-sector collaboration, awareness raising and advocacy, nature of the policy, and the effective use of data to model policy impacts and inform the general public. The absence of clear lines of responsibility and a decline in collaboration over time were identified as barriers to implementation of the import duties. Conclusion In a small Island state implementing import duties to prevent non-communicable disease can be straight forward providing policymakers and the community have a shared understanding of the health and economic costs of NCDs.
Language	eng
DOI	10.1186/s12992-021-00788-z
Indigenous content	off
Field of Research	1117 Public Health and Health Services
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Free to Read?	Yes
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30160146

Document type:	Journal Article
Collections:	Faculty of Health Population Health Open Access Collection

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