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Consumption of sweetened-beverages and poverty in Colombia: when access is not an advantage

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Title
Consumption of sweetened-beverages and poverty in Colombia: when access is not an advantage
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BMC Public Health, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5037-1
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Oscar F. Herran, Gonzalo A. Patiño, Edna M. Gamboa

Abstract

This study characterizes the intake of sweetened beverages and establishes whether economic inequalities in their consumption exists. Ecological study. Mixed methods using food frequency questionnaire and inequality indices. Based on the National Nutrition Survey, Colombia, 2010. The sweetened beverage intake of 17,514 subjects in 33 geodemographic units was estimated with a food frequency questionnaire and summarized. The calculation of inequality was based on the monetary poverty. The prevalence (yes/no) and frequency (times/day) of sweetened beverage consumption were estimated. Indices of economic inequality were calculated for both prevalence and frequency. The prevalence of sweetened beverage consumption was between 79.2% (95% CI, 75.7 to 82.8) in adults and 88.5% (95% CI, 85.8 to 91.3) in minors. The frequency of consumption in terms of times/day, was between 0.20 (95% CI, 0.16 to 0.24) in adults and 0.40 (95% CI, 0.33 to 0.46) in minors. The Gini coefficient for the prevalence was close to zero, between 0.04 and 0.08; for the frequency, it was slightly higher, between 0.12 and 0.25. It was established that there is no economic inequality in the consumption of sweetened beverages. Consumption taxes could be regressive.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 16%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Researcher 6 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 6%
Other 3 4%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 25 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Social Sciences 8 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 28 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 June 2018.
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#13,578,269
of 23,016,919 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#9,633
of 14,994 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#236,338
of 473,640 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#188
of 238 outputs
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