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. 2023 Jul 21;32(11):2568–2582. doi: 10.1002/hec.4739

TABLE 1.

Description of key parameter inputs according to the quintile subgroups with the 95% uncertainty intervals (UI).

Data inputs Quintile 1 (95%UI) Quintile 2 (95%UI) Quintile 3 (95%UI) Quintile 4 (95%UI) Quintile 5 (95%UI) Total population (95%UI)
Target population a Australian population 2020, aged 0–100 years
Proportion of SSB intake by population (%) b 44.7 (42.6; 46.8) 41.2 (38.8; 43.6) 38.3 (36.1; 40.5) 34.2 (31.8; 36.6) 29.0 (26.6; 31.4) 37.2 (36.2; 38.2)
Mean daily SSB consumption (cups) b 1.41 (1.25; 1.57) 1.18 (1.07; 1.30) 0.94 (0.84; 1.05) 1.02 (0.87; 1.16) 0.72 (0.63; 0.81) 1.07 (1.02; 1.13)
Intervention effectiveness decay Intervention effectiveness applied at 100% for all cycles
Type of model used Closed cohort Markov model
Costs included Patient travel costs, time costs for travel and dental treatment, dental examination, restorations, full upper and lower dentures, and replacing dentures
Intervention costs (AUD$) c First year ‐ 5.8M (SD 0.679)
Subsequent years ‐ 4.47M (SD 0.679)

Note: Detailed model parameter inputs are presented in Appendix 2 and 3 (Supplementary File).

Abbreviations: AUD$, 2020 Australian dollars; SD, standard deviation; UI, uncertainty interval.

a

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2022b).

b

Data from the 2017–2018 National Health Survey (Australian Bureau of Statistic, 2018).

c

Data from an Australian modeled study (Lal et al., 2017).