Chronic Diseases: Chronic Diseases and Development 3 Tackling of unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and obesity: health eff ects and cost-eff ectiveness

Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France (M Cecchini MD, F Sassi PhD); Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J A Lauer PhD, D Chisholm PhD); Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-eff ectiveness, University of Queensland School of Population Health, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Y Y Lee BHSci); and Economic Analysis Unit, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico (V Guajardo-Barron MSc)

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