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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
Jørgen Dejgård Jensen,Sinne Smed +1 more
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%.
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Systems Thinking as a Framework for Analyzing Commercial Determinants of Health
Cécile Knai,Mark Petticrew,Nicholas Mays,Simon Capewell,Rebecca Cassidy,Steven Cummins,Elizabeth Eastmure,Patrick Fafard,Benjamin Hawkins,Jørgen Dejgård Jensen,Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi,Modi Mwatsama,Jim Orford,Heide Weishaar +13 more
TL;DR: Unhealthy commodity industries actively design and shape the NCD policy system, intervene at different levels of the system to gain agency over policy and politics, and legitimize their presence in public health policy decisions.
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Evidence-based development of school-based and family-involved prevention of overweight across Europe: the ENERGY-project's design and conceptual framework.
Johannes Brug,Saskia J. te Velde,Mai J M Chinapaw,Elling Bere,Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij,Helen J Moore,Lea Maes,Jørgen Dejgård Jensen,Yannis Manios,Nanna Lien,Knut-Inge Klepp,Tim Lobstein,Marloes K. Martens,Jo Salmon,Amika S. Singh +14 more
TL;DR: The ENERGY-project is an international, multidisciplinary effort to develop and test an evidence-based and theory-informed intervention program for obesity prevention among school-aged children.