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The effect of TV viewing on children’s obesity risk and mental well-being : evidence from the UK digital switchover

Nieto, Adrián; Suhrcke, Marc - In: Journal of health economics 80 (2021), pp. 1-20

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Griffith, Rachel - 2023

Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years - see, for example, DHSC (2020) and Dimbleby (2021). Understanding the costs associated with obesity is important for informing policy. Bell and Deyes (2022) have recently produced what are,...

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Does using planning policy to restrict fast food outlets reduce inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity?

Xiang, Huasheng; Albani, Viviana; Goffe, Louis; Akhter, … - 2022

Half of local governments in England use planning policy to promote a healthier environment. In 2015, Gateshead Council … in the North-East of England was the first local authority to ban planning permission for any new fast-food outlet. We … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

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Longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dietary purchasing choices of British households

Augsburg, Britta; Farquharson, Christine; McKendrick, Andrew - 2024

This report uses data on food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from shops, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to analyse how the diets of a large, representative panel of households in Great Britain evolved 15 months before and up to 24 months after the start of the onset of the COVID-19...

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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio–economic causes

Dang, Rui - 2015

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...