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Jørgen Dejgård Jensen

Researcher at University of Copenhagen

Publications -  65
Citations -  1784

Jørgen Dejgård Jensen is an academic researcher from University of Copenhagen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Saturated fat & Public health. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 62 publications receiving 1494 citations.

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Socio-economic characteristics and the effect of taxation as a health policy instrument

TL;DR: In this paper, the nutritional effects of various taxation schemes are compared for households in different age groups and social classes, focusing on the consumption of saturated fats, fibre and sugar; it is generally found that the impact of price instruments is stronger for lower social classes than in other groups of the population.
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What is the effectiveness of obesity related interventions at retail grocery stores and supermarkets? —a systematic review

TL;DR: E efficacy of in-store healthy food interventions in terms of increased purchase of healthy foods is found and researchers need to take risk of bias and methodological quality into account when designing future studies that should guide policy makers.
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The Danish tax on saturated fat – Short run effects on consumption, substitution patterns and consumer prices of fats

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an econometric analysis on weekly food purchase data from a large household panel dataset (GfK Panel Services Denmark), spanning the period from January 2008 until July 2012, and found that the introduction of the tax on saturated fat in food products had some effects on the market for the considered products, in that the level of consumption of fats dropped by 10-15%.