Effectiveness and equity of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation

PLoS Med. 2017 Jun 27;14(6):e1002327. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002327. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Authors

Sanjay Basu¹, Kristine Madsen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
² School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Sanjay Basu and Kristine Madsen discuss the effects of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages in both Australia and Berkeley, USA.

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MeSH terms

Australia
Beverages
Dietary Sucrose
Humans
Obesity*
Taxes*

Substances

Dietary Sucrose

Grants and funding

The authors received no funding for this work.