The health equity and effectiveness of policy options to reduce dietary salt intake in England: Policy forecast

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Gillespie, Duncan O S ^a,c   Allen, Kirk ^b   Guzman Castillo, Maria ^a   Bandosz, Piotr ^a   Moreira, Patricia ^a   McGill, Rory ^a   Anwar, Elspeth ^a   Lloyd Williams, Ffion ^a   Bromley, Helen ^a   Diggle, Peter J ^b   Capewell, Simon ^a   O'Flaherty, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SALT INTAKE; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENGLAND; HEALTH EQUITY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION POLICY;

SALT INTAKE;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENGLAND; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NUTRITION POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84940509913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127927     Document Type: Article

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