ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2024
A Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Excise Tax in California: Projected Benefits for Population Obesity and Health Equity.
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- Overweight and obesity significantly increase colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 66 studies revealing a 25-57% elevation in risk.GeroScience · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of sugar taxation policies in Asia and Africa: a systematic review.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Pooled it
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- Who pays and Who benefits? A distributional health-economic evaluation of strengthening the UK soft drinks industry levy.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Commercial Determinants of Latinx Health: A Scoping Review of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in the USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of Installing Water Dispensers in Massachusetts' Schools to Improve Nutrition Environments, Health, and Health Equity.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026Article
- Cost-Effectiveness and Health Equity Improvements From Excluding Sugar-Sweetened Beverages From the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of Fiscal Policy for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Reducing the Burden of Disease and Healthcare Costs in Brazil: A Simulation Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
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- An application of the augmented synthetic control method within a target trial framework: the case of the soda tax policy in California.BMC public health · 2025Article
- City-Level Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes and Changes in Adult Body Mass Index.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Trends in Toddler Diet Quality in the United States: 1999 to 2018.Pediatrics · 2024Article
- Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Social Injustices Contributing to Obesity Disparities.Current obesity reports · 2024Review
- Childhood Obesity Prevention - Focusing on Population-Level Interventions and Equity.The New England journal of medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionAmid the successes of local sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes, interest in state-wide policies has grown. This study evaluated the cost effectiveness of a hypothetical 2-cent-per-ounce excise tax in California and its implications for population health and health equity.
methodsUsing the Childhood Obesity Intervention Cost-Effectiveness Study microsimulation model, tax impacts on health, health equity, and cost effectiveness over 10 years in California were projected, both overall and stratified by race/ethnicity and income. Expanding on previous models, differences in the effect of intake of SSBs on weight by BMI category were incorporated. Costing was performed in 2020, and analyses were conducted in 2021-2022.
resultsThe tax is projected to save $4.55 billion in healthcare costs, prevent 266,000 obesity cases in 2032, and gain 114,000 quality-adjusted life years. Cost-effectiveness metrics, including cost/quality-adjusted life year gained, were cost saving. Spending on SSBs was projected to decrease by $33 per adult and $26 per child overall in the first year. Reductions in obesity prevalence for Black and Hispanic Californians were 1.8 times larger than for White Californians, and reductions for adults with lowest incomes (<130% Federal Poverty Level) were 1.4 times the reduction among those with highest incomes (>350% Federal Poverty Level). The tax is projected to save $112 in obesity-related healthcare costs per $1 invested.
conclusionsA state-wide SSB tax in California would be cost saving, lead to reductions in obesity and improvement in SSB-related health equity, and lead to overall improvements in population health. The policy would generate more than $1.6 billion in state tax revenue annually that can also be used to improve health equity.
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