The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) work on overweight, diet and physical activity was conducted on behalf of its Health Committee, between 2016 and 2019. Michele Cecchini oversaw the project and coordinated the production of the final report. He also led the production of Chapter 1. Chapter 2 was led by Christina Xiao. Chapters 3 and 8 as well the country notes were led by Sabine Vuik. She also contributed to the production of the report. Marion Devaux led Chapter 4 while Yevgeniy Goryakin led Chapters 5 and 6 as well as the special focus Chapter 7. Aliénor Lerouge led the modelling team with support from Alexandra Aldea and Leila Fardeau. Yvan Guillemette from the Economics Department ran the analyses on the OECD GDP long-term model and contributed to Chapters 3 and 6 as well as the special focus to Chapter 6. Andrea Feigl and Sahara Graf supported the main authors and gave a significant contribution to different sections of the report. Kei Nakagawa and Ivan Tzintzun provide support for analyses on labour market outcomes in, respectively, Japan and Mexico.
Many more people deserve credit for the work presented in this book. The production of this report benefited greatly from the inputs and comments received from other OECD colleagues, national experts, member states representatives and other stakeholders.
Within OECD, authors would like to thank Lucy Hulett and Suzanne Parandian for the editorial assistance. Lukasz Lech and Guillaume Haquin provided administrative assistant. Paul Gallagher and Spencer Wilson helped sharpening the key messages from this work. Thanks also go to Thierry Pellegrini and Arnaud Atoch for their support on IT, software and programming issues – their contribution was critical to the various analyses and effective management of very large quantities of data. Stefano Scarpetta, Mark Pearson and Francesca Colombo provided senior leadership and advice throughout the project. Franco Sassi provided inputs in the initial phases of the designing of the project. Colleagues from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate as well as Francesca Borgonovi from the Education Directorate provided inputs and comments on issues related to their respective areas of work.
Special thanks go to Attila Balogh (European Commission) who followed the development of the project since its conceptualisation and provided inputs throughout.
The OECD maintains a close partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in its work on public health and authors would like to thank Chizuru Nishida for her inputs and comments on the different drafts of the report. At WHO Europe, authors would like to acknowledge Joao Breda.
Preliminary versions of the chapters of this book were presented and discussed at meetings of the OECD Expert Group on the Economics of Public Health (EGEPH) chaired by Cristina Gutierrez Delgado and at meetings of the OECD Health Committee chaired by Bjorn-Inge Larsen and Olivia Wigzell. Country experts and delegates are too many to name individually, but authors would like to thank in particular delegates from Australia, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the United States, the European Commission and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission for their constructive comments throughout the process. In addition, authors would like to thank delegates and experts participating in the work of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, specifically participants to the 2018 meeting of the Food Chain Analysis Network, as well as the Chair and delegates of the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets. Finally, authors would like to acknowledge useful comments from the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).
The work was funded through regular contributions from OECD member countries and received support from grants from the Health Programme of the European Union, and from the Governments of France and Italy.
The contents of this book do not necessarily reflect the views of individual OECD member countries, or those of the European Commission.
This publication has been produced with the financial and substantive assistance of the European Union. The contents of this report are the sole responsibility of the OECD and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.