Lise Retat, Laura Webber, Peter Jepsen, Alexander Martin, Helena Cortez- Pinto, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Francesco Negro, Markiyan Mitchyn, John Guzek, Joshua Card-Gowers, Hannah Graff, Pierre Nahon, Nick Sheron, Shira Zelber Sagi, Maria Buti
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Chronic liver disease (CLD) causes 1.8% of all deaths in Europe, many of them from liver cancer. We estimated the impact of several policy interventions the Netherlands, and Romania. METHODS: We used a validated microsimulation model to assess seven different policy scenarios in 2022-2030: a Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) on alcohol of €0.70, an MUP of €1, a volumetric alcohol tax, a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax, food marketing restrictions, plus two different combinations of these policies compared against an inaction scenario...
December 2, 2023: Journal of Hepatology