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Caro, Juan Carlos; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Silva, Andrés; Popkin, Barry; Taillie, Lindsey Smith (Public Library Science, 2018)Background On October 1, 2014, the Chilean government modified its previous sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax, increasing the tax rate from 13% to 18% on industrialized beverages with high levels of sugar (H-SSBs) ...
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Caro, Juan Carlos; Valizadeh, Pourya; Correa, Alejandrina; Silva, Andrés; Ng, Shu Wen (Public Library Science, 2020)Taxes on unhealthy foods and sweetened beverages, as well as subsidies to healthy foods, have become increasingly popular strategies to curb obesity and related non-communicable diseases. The existing evidence on the welfare ...
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Caro, Juan Carlos; Smith Taillie, Lindsey; Wen Ng, Shu; Popkin, Barry (Elsevier, 2017)The global shift towards diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and energy dense ultra-processed foods is linked to higher prevalence of obesity, diabetes and most other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), causing ...