The impact of a local sugar sweetened beverage health promotion and price increase on sales in public leisure centre facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to evaluate the impact of a local sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) health promotion and 20p price increase in leisure centre venues and estimate the impact on consumption.

Method

Monthly cold drinks sales data and attendance at leisure centres across the city of Sheffield were analysed over the period January 2015-July 2017. Interrupted time-series methods were employed to estimate changes in consumption per attendance of SSB and non-SSB cold drinks following the introduction of the SSB policy from August 2016 adjusting for seasonal variation and autocorrelation. SSB price elasticities were estimated with fixed effects log-log models by SSB product type (soda can, soda bottle, soda post mix, energy drinks, juice from concentrate).

Findings

We estima

SUBMITTER: Breeze P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976158 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature