scholarly journals Alcohol consumption among university students: a typology of consumption to aid the tailoring of effective public health policy

BMJ Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. e011815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin P Davoren ◽  
Mary Cronin ◽  
Ivan J Perry ◽  
Karl O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
University Students ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Effective Public Health

scholarly journals Energy labelling of alcoholic drinks as a public health policy to reduce obesity: An integrative review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Alcoholic Drink ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks ◽  
Energy Labelling

Objective: Both excessive alcohol consumption and obesity produce a considerable public health burden. Alcohol is calorie dense, but unlike food products, alcoholic drinks tend to be exempt from nutritional labelling laws that require energy content information to be displayed on packaging or at point of purchase. Design: Here we provide an integrative review on the potential of alcoholic drink energy labelling as a public health policy to reduce obesity. Results: We first outline the contribution that alcohol makes to population level daily energy intake and the role that alcohol consumption may have in promoting obesity. We next discuss the extent to which there is a consumer need for alcoholic drink energy labelling and the potential impact that energy labelling of alcoholic drinks would have on both consumer and industry behaviour. The direct and indirect pathways and mechanisms by which energy labelling of alcoholic drinks could theoretically influence public health are discussed, as well as possible unintended consequences of alcoholic drink energy labelling. Conclusion: We conclude by discussing key questions that will need to be answered by future research in order to determine how effective energy labelling of alcoholic drink policies will be in reducing obesity and improving public health.

scholarly journals Showing leads to doing: graphic cigarette warning labels are an effective public health policy

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hammond ◽  
Geoffrey T. Fong ◽  
Paul W. Mcdonald ◽  
K. Stephen Brown ◽  
Roy Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Warning Labels ◽  
Effective Public Health

Recommendations for International Gambling Harm-Minimisation Guidelines: Comparison with Effective Public Health Policy

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally M. Gainsbury ◽  
Matthijs Blankers ◽  
Claire Wilkinson ◽  
Karen Schelleman-Offermans ◽  
Janna Cousijn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Harm Minimisation ◽  
Gambling Harm ◽  
Effective Public Health

scholarly journals EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN D. H. PORTER
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Epidemiological Methods ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Health Policy And Practice ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Effective Public Health

Academic disciplines like anthropology and epidemiology provide a niche for researchers to speak the same language, and to interrogate the assumptions that they use to investigate problems. How anthropological and epidemiological methods communicate and relate to each other affects the way public health policy is created but the philosophical underpinnings of each discipline makes this difficult. Anthropology is reflective, subjective and investigates complexity and the individual; epidemiology, in contrast, is objective and studies populations. Within epidemiological methods there is the utilitarian concept of potentially sacrificing the interests of the individual for the benefits of maximizing population welfare, whereas in anthropology the individual is always included. Other strengths of anthropology in the creation of public health policy include: its attention to complexity, questioning the familiar; helping with language and translation; reconfiguring boundaries to create novel frameworks; and being reflective. Public health requires research that is multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary. To do this, there is a need for each discipline to respect the ‘dignity of difference’ between disciplines in order to help create appropriate and effective public health policy.

Public Health: Policy and Politics

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Baggott ◽  
David J Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy
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