By Callie Anderson Callie Anderson is completing her Masters of Public Health at the University of Waterloo. She currently works as a Health Promoter developing programs and advocating for policies to improve public health and health equity at the community level. What are the Commercial Determinants of Health? The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) … Read More →
Critchlow, N., Moodie, C., & Houghton, F. (2022). Brand sharing between alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic offerings: a challenge to Ireland’s restrictions on alcohol advertising. Irish Journal of Medical Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-022-03161-0. In November 2022, it will be 3 years since Sect. 14 of Ire- land’s Public Health (Alcohol) Act made it an offence to advertise alcohol … Read More →
September 2nd, 2022 from the foundation for Alcohol research & Education. Summary Social and digital media platforms are part of everyday life for most Australians. While they are primarily used for connecting with our family and friends, such platforms are largely in the business of advertising. But they have created an advertising model that is … Read More →
Garde, A., & Cabrera, O. (2022). Introduction – Commercial Speech and the Commercial Determinants of Health. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 50(2), 212-215. doi:10.1017/jme.2022.44 Abstract This article introduces a symposium that aims to identify and critically assess the legal strategies of the tobacco, alcohol, and food and beverage industries which rest on freedom of … Read More →
Goodwin, I. (2022). Programmatic alcohol advertising, social media and public health: algorithms, automated challenges to regulation, and the failure of public oversight. International Journal of Drug Policy, 109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103826 Abstract Ongoing partnerships between transnational alcohol corporations and global social media platforms have transformed alcohol advertising in ways that undermine existing marketing regulations and threaten all … Read More →
Hoe, C., Weiger, C., Minosa, M. K. R., Alonso, F., koon, A. D., & Cohen, J. E. (2022). Strategies to expand corporate autonomy by the tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage industry: a scoping review of reviews. Globalization and Health, 18(17). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-022-00811-x Background Noncommunicable diseases contribute to over 70% of global deaths each year. Efforts to … Read More →
New Zealand children are exposed to alcohol marketing on nearly every visit to the supermarket, innovative camera research from Otago and Auckland Universities reveals. The research found children were exposed to alcohol marketing on 85 per cent of their visits to supermarkets, often near bread and milk or near the entrance. Lead researcher Tim Chambers … Read More →
Dumbili, E. W., Nelson, E. E. (2022). Sexualized alcohol marketing, precarious work and gendered sexual risks: explorations of women beer promoters in Benin City, Nigeria. ABSTRACT The alcohol industry in Nigeria uses sophisticated marketing strategies to influence drinking, and alcohol marketing regulations do not exist. This study examined the alcohol industry’ strategy of using young … Read More →
McCambridge, J., Garry, J., Kypri, K., & Hastings, G. (2022). “Using information to shape perception”: tobacco industry documents study of the evolution of Corporate Affairs in the Miller Bewwing Company”. Globalization and Health, 18(52), 1-14. doi.org/10.1186/s12992-022-00843-3 Abstract Background The Miller Brewing Company (MBC) was wholly owned by Phillip Morris (PM), between 1970 and 2002. Tobacco industry … Read More →
Petticrew, M., Maani, N., Pettigre, L., Rutter, H., & van Schalkwyk, M. C. (2020). Dark Nudges and Sludge in Big Alcohol: Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Biases, and Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility. Context: “Nudges” and other behavioral economic approaches exploit common cognitive biases (systematic errors in thought processes) in order to influence behavior and decision-making. Nudges … Read More →
Bhattacharya, A., Angus, C., Pryce, R., Holmes, J., Brennan, A., & Meier, P. S. (2018). How dependent is the alcohol industry on heavy drinking in England? Addiction, 113, 2225-2232. 10.1111/add.14386 Aims To understand the extent of the alcohol industry’s financial dependence on drinking above government low-risk guidelines in England. Design Scenario modelling using descriptive analyses … Read More →