Can Sugar Taxes Prevent Diabetes in Latin America? Annotated Bibliography

This is the third of three lesson plans in a teaching pack on sugar taxes and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. This lesson is designed to teach undergraduates about the rationale for taxation strategies to improve public health, first through considering Mexico’s national sugar tax, and then through a comparative role-play to consider the perspective of various stakeholders in Colombia where advocates are attempting to…

This is the first of three lesson plans in a teaching pack on sugar taxes and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. This lesson provides students with a broad introduction of what NCDs are and how their impact can be quantified. Through practice in analyzing graphic data on NCDs such as cardiovascular disease and communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, learners consider the toll of…

This is the second of three lesson plans in a teaching pack on sugar taxes and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. This lesson is designed to teach undergraduates about global trends in diabetes, using graphical interpretation activities to identify regions and countries where diabetes control should be a priority, and then focus on Latin America and the example of Mexico to brainstorm how social factors…