AcademyHealth: Sometimes good intentions lead to bad results

Aaron Carroll

July 29, 2015

I’ve long been concerned about implementing public health policy without really studying it. Sometimes, it’s because I worry the policy won’t work. Sometimes, it’s because I think the policy will cost a lot of money, and it won’t be worth the results. And – sometimes – it’s because I worry that the policy might backfire. A good example of this last concern was illustrated in a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health. “The Unintended Consequences of Changes in Beverage Options and the Removal of Bottled Water on a University Campus“

Go read about all of this in my latest post over at the AcademyHealth blog!

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

AcademyHealth: Sometimes good intentions lead to bad results

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