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ArticleGlobal health action2021

Barriers to, and facilitators of, the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax to prevent non-communicable diseases in Namibia: a policy landscape analysis.

Hans Justus Amukugo, Safura Abdool Karim, Anne Marie Thow, Agnes Erzse, Petronell Kruger, Abel Karera, Karen Hofman

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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 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Hans Justus AmukugoCommunity Health Department, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.ORCID 0000-0003-0512-4144
Safura Abdool KarimUniversity of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4843-9907
Anne Marie ThowMenzies Centre for Health Policy and Director of Academic Titles, School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6460-5864
Agnes ErzseUniversity of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9303-9323
Petronell KrugerUniversity of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Abel KareraAllied Health Department, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Karen HofmanUniversity of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9512-7220
University of the Witwatersrand · ZAUniversity of Namibia · NAThe University of Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Noncommunicable DiseasesSugar-Sweetened BeveragesBeveragesHumansNamibiaPolicySouth AfricaTaxesFiscal policynutrition-related NCDspolicy analysispolitical economy

Identifiers

PMID33876708
PMCPMC8079035
OpenAlexW3156310092

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