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The distributional impact of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages: findings from an extended cost-effectiveness analysis in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Facing increasing obesity prevalence and obesity-related disease burden, South Africa has devised an obesity prevention strategy that includes a recently implemented tax on the sugar content of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). We assess the potential distributional impact (across socioec...

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Autores principales: Saxena, Akshar, Stacey, Nicholas, Puech, Paula Del Ray, Mudara, Caroline, Hofman, Karen, Verguet, Stéphane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6730580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31543983
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001317