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Nutritional Impacts of Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol: Are there unintended diet consequences?

2022-12-14 health economics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundIn 2018, Scotland introduced a Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) policy to remove very-low-cost alcoholic drinks from the market and reduce adverse social and health-related impacts of excessive alcohol consumption. Any increased spending on alcohol may reduce spending on food, and adversely impact diet quality. ObjectivesTo estimate the effect of MUP on dietary energy, nutrients and diet quality. MethodsAnalyses were conducted on household level purchase data, collected by Kantar Worldpane...

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