TY - JOUR ID - 2764 TI - Ethical Agreement and Disagreement about Obesity Prevention Policy in the United States JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Barnhill, Anne AU - F. King, Katherine AD - Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA AD - Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 117 EP - 120 KW - Obesity Prevention KW - Public Health Ethics KW - Food Policy KW - Food tax KW - Autonomy KW - Justice DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.21 N2 - An active area of public health policy in the United States is policy meant to promote healthy eating, reduce overconsumption of food, and prevent overweight/obesity. Public discussion of such obesity prevention policies includes intense ethical disagreement. We suggest that some ethical disagreements about obesity prevention policies can be seen as rooted in a common concern with equality or with autonomy, but there are disagreements about which dimensions of equality or autonomy have priority, and about whether it is justifiable for policies to diminish equality or autonomy along one dimension in order to increase it along another dimension. We illustrate this point by discussing ethical disagreements about two obesity prevention policies. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2764.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2764_4f713829ac1533627741cc41fab90d9b.pdf ER -