Supermarket policies on less-healthy food at checkouts: Natural experimental evaluation using interrupted time series analyses of purchases

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2018, Pages

  Ejlerskov, Katrine T ^a   Sharp, Stephen J ^a   Stead, Martine ^b   Adamson, Ashley J ^c   White, Martin ^a   Adams, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOCOLATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MARKET; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLICE; POTATO; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; SNACKS; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85058878157     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002712     Document Type: Article

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