Estimating the health benefits and cost-savings of a cap on the size of single serve sugar-sweetened beverages

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue , 2019, Pages 150-156

  Cleghorn, Christine ^a   Blakely, Tony ^a   Mhurchu, Cliona Ni ^b   Wilson, Nick ^a   Neal, Bruce ^c,d   Eyles, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beverage; Cost benefit analysis; Diet, food and nutrition; Epidemiology; Life tables; Public health; Quality adjusted life years

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASE CASE MODEL; BODY MASS; CARBONATED BEVERAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; ENERGY DRINK; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT DRINK; FRUIT JUICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH GAIN; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTI STATE LIFE TABLE MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SPORTS DRINK; SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGE; SWEETENED MILK; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EVENT; CALORIC INTAKE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COST SAVINGS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES;

EID: 85060878189     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.01.009     Document Type: Article

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