ArticleCurrent obesity reports2014
Evaluating the Health Impacts of Food and Beverage Taxes.
Article in Current obesity reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on purchases and dietary intake: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019Pooled it
- Population health impacts from the taxation of salt and sugar in the United Kingdom.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Modelling impacts of a salt and sugar tax on hypothetical intra-category food substitutions, BMI and environmental footprints in the UK population.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Perceived Beverage Healthfulness, Tax Awareness, and Tax Opinions.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2024Article
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- The Effect of Erythritol on the Physicochemical Properties of Reformulated, High-Protein, and Sugar-Free Macarons Produced from Whey Protein Isolate Intended for Diabetics, Athletes, and Physically Active People.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The role of taxation measures in the management of harmful products, services, and practices in Iran: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- How should we evaluate sweetened beverage tax policies? A review of worldwide experience.BMC public health · 2021Review
- Evidence of a health risk 'signalling effect' following the introduction of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax.Food policy · 2021Article
- Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: controlled interrupted time series analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Article
- The data availability landscape in seven sub-Saharan African countries and its role in strengthening sugar-sweetened beverage taxation.Global health action · 2021Article
- Potential Impact of the Nonessential Energy-Dense Foods Tax on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children: A Modeling Study.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Assessing the impact of the Barbados sugar-sweetened beverage tax on beverage sales: an observational study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Observational
- Different scientific approaches are needed to generate stronger evidence for population health improvement.PLoS medicine · 2018Article
- Should we tax unhealthy food and drink?The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society · 2018Review
- A rapid review examining purchasing changes resulting from fiscal measures targeted at high sugar foods and sugar-sweetened drinks.Nutrition & diabetes · 2017Review
- Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2017Article
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- Health impact assessment of the UK soft drinks industry levy: a comparative risk assessment modelling study.The Lancet. Public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Several jurisdictions are now imposing taxes on food and beverages to prevent obesity (and related conditions). Existing evidence concerning their effects comes largely from simulation studies and trials in closed settings, both of which have limitations. Rigorous evaluation of actual taxes may provide richer evidence with greater external validity to support policy making. This article describes existing evaluation studies and outlines an implicit underlying theoretical framework for how taxes are expected to affect health. It then explores three important issues for future studies: selection of an appropriate evaluative perspective (comparing realist and biomedical experimental paradigms); approaches to causal inference; and the challenge of a low signal-to-noise ratio. We argue that evaluation should be informed by a realist perspective as well as making appropriate use of established empirical quasi-experimental approaches to testing causal effects. This should be underpinned by a theoretical framework that acknowledges complexity and the potential diversity of impacts.
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