Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives and disincentives for improving food purchases and health through the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A microsimulation study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Mozaffarian, Dariush ^a   Liu, Junxiu ^a   Sy, Stephen ^b   Huang, Yue ^a   Rehm, Colin ^c   Lee, Yujin ^a   Wilde, Parke ^a   Abrahams Gessel, Shafika ^b   de Souza Veiga Jardim, Thiago ^b   Gaziano, Tom ^b   Micha, Renata ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATION; FISH; FOOD; FOOD ASSISTANCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; JUNK FOOD; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHOLE GRAIN; ADULT; AGED; BEVERAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTHY DIET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NUTRITION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEVERAGES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD ASSISTANCE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTHY DIET; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NUTRITION SURVEYS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85054375918     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002661     Document Type: Article

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