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Towards Automated Risk-Factor Surveillance: Using Digital Grocery Purchasing Data to Measure Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Impact of In-Store Price Discounts on Dietary Choice
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Obesity and related chronic diseases cost Canadians several billion dollars annually. Dietary intake, and in particular consumption of carbonated sweetened drinks (soda), has a strong effect on the incidence of obesity and other illness. Marketing… read more… to monitor price discounts are currently limited by a lack of data and methods. Although rarely used in public … to monitor price discounts are currently limited by a lack of data and methods. Although rarely used in public … -
Towards a Framework for Data Quality Properties of Indicators used in Surveillance
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Effective use of data for disease surveillance depends critically on the ability to trust and quantify the quality of source data. The Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance project is developing tools to integrate and present… read more… burden of malaria (Presidents Malaria Initiative, Roll Back Malaria Initiative and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, … burden of malaria (Presidents Malaria Initiative, Roll Back Malaria Initiative and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, … -
Digital Sources of Food Purchasing Data for the Surveillance of Dietary Patterns
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In Canada, the economic impact of unhealthy eating is estimated at $6.3 billion annually and in the US the estimated cost is $87 billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, public… read more… evaluation, public health practitioners and researchers lack timely access to representative data sources collected … evaluation, public health practitioners and researchers lack timely access to representative data sources collected …