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Impact of an excise tax on the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in young people living in poorer neighbourhoods of Catalonia, Spain: a difference in differences study

BACKGROUND: Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is contributing to the obesity epidemic. On 28 March 2017, Catalonia enacted a law levying an excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages for public health reasons. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of the tax on the consumption of sugar-s...

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Autores principales: Royo-Bordonada, Miguel Ángel, Fernández-Escobar, Carlos, Simón, Lorena, Sanz-Barbero, Belen, Padilla, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7908-5