Public preferences for policies promoting a healthy diet: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Worldwide obesity rates have nearly tripled over the past five decades. So far, policies to promote a healthier diet have been less intrusive than those to reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption. Not much is known about public support for policies that aim to promote a healthy diet. In this study, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to elicit stated preferences for policies varying in intrusiveness among a representative sample of the public of The Netherlands.

Methods

The choice tasks presented respondents a hypothetical scenario of two policy packages, each comprising a mix of seven potential policies that differed in level of intrusiveness. We estimated mixed logit models (MXL) to estimate respondents' preferences for these policies and performed latent

SUBMITTER: Dieteren CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9707240 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature