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ArticleGlobal health action2021

The legal feasibility of adopting a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in seven sub-Saharan African countries.

Safura Abdool Karim, Agnes Erzse, Anne-Marie Thow, Hans Justus Amukugo, Charles Ruhara, Gemma Ahaibwe, Gershim Asiki, Mulenga M Mukanu, Twalib Ngoma, Milka Wanjohi and 2 more

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Article in Global health action, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 8 institutions in 8 countries.

Safura Abdool KarimSAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - Priority Cost Effective Lessons for Systems Strengthening (PRICELESS SA), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4843-9907
Agnes ErzseSAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - Priority Cost Effective Lessons for Systems Strengthening (PRICELESS SA), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9303-9323
Anne-Marie ThowMenzies Centre for Health Policy and Director of Academic Titles, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6460-5864
Hans Justus AmukugoCommunity Health Department, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.ORCID 0000-0003-0512-4144
Charles RuharaSchool of Economics, University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda.ORCID 0000-0002-0946-8318
Gemma AhaibweEconomic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Gershim AsikiHealth and Systems for Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID 0000-0002-9966-1153
Mulenga M MukanuHealth Policy and Management Unit, School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0002-1207-0925
Twalib NgomaOncology of the Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) and Oncology Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Milka WanjohiHealth and Systems for Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID 0000-0003-4289-4762
Abel KareraAllied Health Department, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Karen HofmanSAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - Priority Cost Effective Lessons for Systems Strengthening (PRICELESS SA), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9512-7220
South African Medical Research Council · ZAAfrican Population and Health Research Center · KEUniversity of Namibia · NAEconomic Policy Research Centre · UGMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences · TZThe University of Sydney · AUUniversity of Rwanda · RWUniversity of Zambia · ZM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Sugar-Sweetened BeveragesBotswanaFeasibility StudiesHumansKenyaNamibiaRwandaTanzaniaTaxesUgandaZambiafiscal policylegal feasibilityNCD policyNon-communicable diseasessub-Saharan Africa

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PMID33876700
PMCPMC8078924
OpenAlexW3155095003

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