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Hall MG, Lee CJY, Jernigan DH, Ruggles P, Cox M, Whitesell C, Grummon AH. The impact of "pinkwashed" alcohol advertisements on attitudes and beliefs: A randomized experiment with US adults. Addict Behav 2024; 152:107960. [PMID: 38309239 PMCID: PMC10923020 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.107960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of alcohol advertisements related to breast cancer awareness or charities (i.e., pinkwashed ads) on attitudes and beliefs. METHODS In 2023, an online experiment randomized 602 US adults to view three pinkwashed ads for beer, wine, and liquor, or three standard ads for the same products. RESULTS Breast cancer risk perceptions (average differential effect [ADE] = 0.03; p = 0.58)) and intentions to purchase the advertised product (ADE = -0.01, p = 0.95) did not differ by ad type. When informed about the link between alcohol and breast cancer, participants who viewed pinkwashed ads reported the ads were more misleading (ADE = 0.51, p < 0.001) and had stronger support for requiring alcohol breast cancer warnings (ADE = 0.23, p < 0.001). The pinkwashed ads for beer (but not for wine or liquor) led to greater: perceived product healthfulness (ADE = 0.16, p = 0.03), perceived social responsibility of the company (ADE = 0.18, p = 0.02), and favorable brand attitudes (ADE = 0.14, p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS Informing the public about pinkwashing increases perceptions of misleadingness and support for alcohol policies. POLICY IMPLICATIONS Exposing the industry practice of pinkwashing could be a promising theme for campaigns to reduce alcohol consumption and increase support for alcohol policies.
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- Marissa G Hall
- Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
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- Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
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- Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
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- Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States; Department of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
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Harris JL, Taillie LS. More than a Nuisance: Implications of Food Marketing for Public Health Efforts to Curb Childhood Obesity. Annu Rev Public Health 2024; 45:213-233. [PMID: 38109516 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-090419-102616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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Fifteen years ago, public health experts urged industry, governments, and advocates to take action to dramatically improve the unhealthy food-marketing environment surrounding children in order to address the global childhood obesity crisis. Since then, research has confirmed that food marketing to children has far-reaching negative effects on their diets and health, takes advantage of adolescent vulnerabilities, and contributes to health disparities. In addition, digital marketing has profoundly changed young people's engagement with brands. Moreover, reliance on industry self-regulation as a solution has proven ineffective. Government-led policies have been more successful, but they remain limited in scope and challenging to adopt and implement. New approaches are necessary to increase public and policy maker awareness that food marketing is more than a nuisance, that it threatens the long-term health of children and adolescents worldwide, and that meaningful governmental action is urgently required to curtail industry's negative impact on young people's well-being.
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- Jennifer L Harris
- Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, USA;
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- Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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Dixon H, Scully M, Niederdeppe J, Brennan E, O'Brien K, Vandenberg B, Pettigrew S, Wakefield M. Can counter-advertising dilute marketing effects of alcohol sponsorship of elite sport: A field experiment. Addiction 2023; 118:2360-2373. [PMID: 37563764 PMCID: PMC10952974 DOI: 10.1111/add.16317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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AIMS To test whether showing spectators counter-advertisements exposing alcohol harms alone, or exposing alcohol harms and alcohol sponsorship, before watching an alcohol-sponsored sporting event promotes less favourable post-event attitudes and intentions towards alcohol sponsor brands and alcohol in general. DESIGN On-line between-subjects experiment. SETTING Australia. PARTICIPANTS A sample of Australian adults aged 18-49 years who planned to watch an alcohol-sponsored National Rugby League (NRL) State of Origin series game was recruited through an online panel. INTERVENTIONS Participants were randomly assigned to one of three counter-advertising conditions: control (neutral advertisement); counter-advertisement exposing alcohol harms; and counter-advertisement exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms, to view at least four times during the week before watching the alcohol-sponsored sporting event. MEASUREMENTS Participants (n = 1932) completed a pre-test questionnaire a week before the sporting event. Within 4 days of watching the sporting event, participants completed post-test measures assessing sponsor brand awareness, attitudes and preferences towards the brand, as well as knowledge, attitudes and intentions for alcohol in general (n = 1075). FINDINGS Compared with the control advertisement, the counter-advertisement exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms promoted higher (6-13%) awareness of sponsor brands, less favourable attitudes towards sponsor brands and drinking beer, lower purchase intentions for sponsor brands (Cohen's d = 0.15, 0.31, 0.27, respectively) and perceived less image-based similarity and fit between the sporting event and sponsor brands (Cohen's d = 0.20 and 0.56). Both counter-advertisements promoted lower perceptions of the appropriateness of consuming alcohol while watching sport (Cohen's d = 0.22 and 0.34), higher awareness of alcohol harms (6-34%) and higher intentions (8-13%) to reduce alcohol consumption than the control advertisement. CONCLUSIONS At alcohol-sponsored sporting events, counter-advertisements addressing alcohol harms may promote knowledge of harms and intentions to drink less. Counter-advertisements that additionally expose and critique alcohol sponsorship may detract from perceptions of sponsor brand image and intentions to purchase the sponsor's products.
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- Helen Dixon
- Cancer Council VictoriaMelbourneVICAustralia
- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVICAustralia
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- Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and Department of CommunicationCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Cancer Council VictoriaMelbourneVICAustralia
- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVICAustralia
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- School of Social SciencesMonash UniversityClaytonVICAustralia
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- School of Social SciencesMonash UniversityClaytonVICAustralia
- Present address:
Australian Institute of Family StudiesSouthbankVICAustralia
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- Cancer Council VictoriaMelbourneVICAustralia
- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVICAustralia
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Petticrew M, Glover RE, Volmink J, Blanchard L, Cott É, Knai C, Maani N, Thomas J, Tompson A, van Schalkwyk MCI, Welch V. The Commercial Determinants of Health and Evidence Synthesis (CODES): methodological guidance for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses. Syst Rev 2023; 12:165. [PMID: 37710334 PMCID: PMC10503085 DOI: 10.1186/s13643-023-02323-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The field of the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) refers to the commercial products, pathways and practices that may affect health. The field is growing rapidly, as evidenced by the WHO programme on the economic and commercial determinants of health and a rise in researcher and funder interest. Systematic reviews (SRs) and evidence synthesis more generally will be crucial tools in the evolution of CDOH as a field. Such reviews can draw on existing methodological guidance, though there are areas where existing methods are likely to differ, and there is no overarching guidance on the conduct of CDOH-focussed systematic reviews, or guidance on the specific methodological and conceptual challenges. METHODS/RESULTS CODES provides guidance on the conduct of systematic reviews focussed on CDOH, from shaping the review question with input from stakeholders, to disseminating the review. Existing guidance was used to identify key stages and to provide a structure for the guidance. The writing group included experience in systematic reviews and other forms of evidence synthesis, and in equity and CDOH research (both primary research and systematic reviews). CONCLUSIONS This guidance highlights the special methodological and other considerations for CDOH reviews, including equity considerations, and pointers to areas for future methodological and guideline development. It should contribute to the reliability and utility of CDOH reviews and help stimulate the production of reviews in this growing field.
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- Mark Petticrew
- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK.
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK
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- Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK
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- Global Health Policy Unit, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK
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- UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, UK
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Sheeran P, Suls J, Bryan A, Cameron L, Ferrer RA, Klein WMP, Rothman AJ. Activation Versus Change as a Principle Underlying Intervention Strategies to Promote Health Behaviors. Ann Behav Med 2023; 57:205-215. [PMID: 36082928 PMCID: PMC10305802 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaac045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interventions are effective in promoting health behavior change to the extent that (a) intervention strategies modify targets (i.e., mechanisms of action), and (b) modifying targets leads to changes in behavior. To complement taxonomies that characterize the variety of strategies used in behavioral interventions, we outline a new principle that specifies how strategies modify targets and thereby promote behavior change. We distinguish two dimensions of targets-value (positive vs. negative) and accessibility (activation level)-and show that intervention strategies operate either by altering the value of what people think, feel, or want (target change) or by heightening the accessibility of behavior-related thoughts, feelings, and goals (target activation). METHODS AND RESULTS We review strategies designed to promote target activation and find that nudges, cue-reminders, goal priming, the question-behavior effect, and if-then planning are each effective in generating health behavior change, and that their effectiveness accrues from heightened accessibility of relevant targets. We also identify several other strategies that may operate, at least in part, via target activation (e.g., self-monitoring, message framing, anticipated regret inductions, and habits). CONCLUSIONS The Activation Vs. Change Principle (AVCP) offers a theoretically grounded and parsimonious means of distinguishing among intervention strategies. By focusing on how strategies modify targets, the AVCP can aid interventionists in deciding which intervention strategies to deploy and how to combine different strategies in behavioral trials. We outline a research agenda that could serve to further enhance the design and delivery of interventions to promote target activation.
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- Paschal Sheeran
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Center for Personalized Health, Institute of Health System Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Psychological Sciences, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced CA, USA
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- Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Scully M, Dixon H, Brennan E, Niederdeppe J, O'Brien K, Pettigrew S, Vandenberg B, Wakefield M. Can counter-advertising exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms influence sport spectators' support for alcohol policies? An experimental study. BMC Public Health 2023; 23:396. [PMID: 36849894 PMCID: PMC9969365 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15250-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Exposure to alcohol advertising and sponsorship through elite sport is associated with harmful use of alcohol. Owing to strong financial and cultural ties between alcohol and sport in Australia, policy action to restrict alcohol sport sponsorship is unlikely to occur without strong public support for change. This study tested whether exposure to counter-advertising exposing industry marketing of harmful products-a technique shown to be effective in tobacco control-promotes higher support for policy change and less favourable beliefs about the alcohol industry among sport spectators. METHODS A sample of 1,075 Australian adults aged 18-49 years who planned to watch an National Rugby League (NRL) State of Origin series game, featuring prominent alcohol sponsorship, was recruited through an online panel and randomly assigned to one of three conditions: control (neutral advertisement); counter-advertisement exposing alcohol harms; counter-advertisement exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms. Participants completed a pre-test questionnaire and viewed their assigned counter-advertisement multiple times in the 5-7 days before the NRL game. Within four days of watching the game, participants completed post-test measures. RESULTS Compared to both the control advertisement and the counter-advertisement exposing alcohol harms, participants who viewed the counter-advertisement exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms were significantly more likely to indicate support for each of four policies aimed at restricting sports-related alcohol marketing, including the complete removal of alcohol sponsorship from sport (51% vs. 32% and 37%). They were also significantly less likely to agree with statements such as "alcohol companies should be allowed to sponsor sport since their products are legal" (39% vs. 63% and 60%) and significantly less likely to report liking alcohol companies in general (38% vs. 59% and 54%). There were no significant differences in policy support or industry beliefs between participants who saw the counter-advertisement exposing alcohol harms and those who saw the control advertisement. CONCLUSION Counter-advertising employing messages that expose and critique the intent and impact of pervasive alcohol sponsorship in sport has potential to bolster public support for policies targeting alcohol sport sponsorship, diminish beliefs supportive of alcohol industry marketing strategies and enhance negative views of alcohol companies and their marketing practices.
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- Maree Scully
- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. .,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. .,Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- The George Institute of Global Health, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.,Australian Institute of Family Studies, Southbank, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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A qualitative framing analysis of how firearm manufacturers and related bodies communicate to the public on gun-related harms and solutions. Prev Med 2023; 166:107346. [PMID: 36427567 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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There is a growing understanding that the producers and sellers of harmful products directly and indirectly affect population health and policy, including through seeking to influence public understanding about the nature of harms and their solutions. However, the firearm industry and related organisations have not to date been the subject of this type of enquiry. This study sought to address this evidential gap through examining the ways in which the firearm industry and industry-associated organisations frame firearms, firearm-related harms and possible solutions to gun violence. This was a thematic qualitative documentary analysis of materials from 7 of the largest firearm manufacturers and associated organisations. Two authors independently extracted textual material from web articles, press releases, annual reports and shareholder communications between 1st April 2019 to 1st April 2020 (302 documents). A hybrid approach combining both deductive and inductive coding was adopted, guided by the literature on the commercial determinants of health and using NVivo version 12. The firearm industry and firearm industry-funded organisations use framings about the safety and role of guns, evidence on associated harms and solutions that align with the industry's business interests, consistent with evidence on other harmful product manufacturers. This study identified framing strategies employed by the firearm industry and related organisations. These included attempts to undermine evidence, linking regulation to a dystopian future, minimising some of the most common harms, placing the responsibility for harms on individuals, and attempting to foster a heightened sense of risk to personal safety.
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Norman T, Anderson-Luxford D, O’Brien P, Room R. Regulating alcohol advertising for public health and welfare in the age of digital marketing: challenges and options. DRUGS: EDUCATION, PREVENTION AND POLICY 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/09687637.2022.2148518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Thomas Norman
- Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Haynes A, Bayly M, Dixon H, McAleese A, Martin J, Chen YJM, Wakefield M. Obesity prevention and related public health advertising versus competing commercial advertising expenditure in Australia. Health Promot Int 2022; 37:6827736. [DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daac155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Mass media campaigns can change attitudes and behaviours to improve population health. However, a key challenge is achieving share of voice in a complex and cluttered media environment. The aim of this study was to compare advertising expenditure on public health campaigns for obesity prevention (and related healthy eating and physical activity campaigns) with competing commercial categories of (a) sugary drinks, (b) artificially sweetened drinks and (c) diet/weight loss products and programmes. These commercial products may either undermine or dilute public health messages by directly contributing to poor health or confusing the public about the best ways to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Monthly estimates of advertising expenditure in Australian media (television, outdoor, cinema, radio, newspapers, magazines and digital) were obtained from Nielsen Media for 2016–18. Eligible public health advertising expenditure for the entire period (total AUD$27M) was vastly outweighed by the commercial categories of sugary drinks (AUD$129M) and diet/weight loss products and services (AUD$122M). Artificially sweetened drinks accounted for an additional AUD$23M of expenditure. These results highlight the need to rebalance the ratio of advertising to support public health in Australia through increased funding for obesity prevention and related campaigns, and critically, through government regulation to limit competing commercial advertising.
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- Ashleigh Haynes
- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria , 615 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004 , Australia
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria , 615 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004 , Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria , 615 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004 , Australia
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia
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- Prevention Division, Cancer Council Victoria , Melbourne, VIC , Australia
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- Obesity Policy Coalition, Cancer Council Victoria , Melbourne, VIC , Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria , 615 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004 , Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria , 615 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004 , Australia
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC , Australia
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Krieger J, Freudenberg N. To Protect Young Children's Health, Limit Marketing and Ubiquity of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages. Am J Public Health 2022; 112:S770-S772. [PMID: 36288527 PMCID: PMC9612193 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2022.307061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- James Krieger
- James Krieger is with the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, and Healthy Food America, Seattle. Nicholas Freudenberg is with the School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York
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- James Krieger is with the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, and Healthy Food America, Seattle. Nicholas Freudenberg is with the School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York
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Harris JL, Phaneuf L, Fleming-Milici F. Effects of Sugary Drink Countermarketing Videos on Caregivers' Attitudes and Intentions to Serve Fruit Drinks and Toddler Milks to Young Children. Am J Public Health 2022; 112:S807-S816. [PMID: 36288519 PMCID: PMC9612202 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2022.307024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Objectives. To test the effects of countermarketing videos addressing common misperceptions about ingredients and claims on children's sugary drinks. Methods. We conducted an online randomized controlled experiment in January 2021 with US caregivers (n = 600) of young children (aged 8‒37 months) to assess the effects of watching countermarketing versus control videos on intentions to serve sugary and healthy drinks (6-point scales) and attitudes (10-point scales) about fruit drinks and toddler milks. Results. The countermarketing videos significantly reduced positive attitudes about fruit drinks (mean difference = 0.92) and toddler milks (mean difference = 2.10), reduced intentions to serve both (mean difference = 0.50 and 0.92, respectively), and increased intentions to serve plain milk (mean difference = 0.52) versus control videos (all Ps < .001). Intentions differed by individual characteristics, but the videos remained effective after we controlled for these characteristics. Moreover, the videos were more effective for toddler milks versus fruit drinks, and effects on fruit drink intentions were greater for Black versus White caregivers and caregivers of children aged 24 months or younger. Conclusions. A countermarketing campaign aimed at diverse caregivers of young children designed to correct misleading children's drink marketing presents a promising public health approach for reducing sugary drink consumption in the first 1000 days. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(S8):S807-S816. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307024).
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- Jennifer L Harris
- Jennifer L. Harris, Lindsay Phaneuf, and Frances Fleming-Milici are with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, University of Connecticut, Hartford
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- Jennifer L. Harris, Lindsay Phaneuf, and Frances Fleming-Milici are with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, University of Connecticut, Hartford
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- Jennifer L. Harris, Lindsay Phaneuf, and Frances Fleming-Milici are with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, University of Connecticut, Hartford
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Rinaldi C, van Schalkwyk MCI, Egan M, Petticrew M. A Framing Analysis of Consultation Submissions on the WHO Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol: Values and Interests. Int J Health Policy Manag 2022; 11:1550-1561. [PMID: 34273930 PMCID: PMC9808336 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In response to the magnitude of harms caused by alcohol, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol (GAS) was endorsed in 2010. We analysed submissions to the 2019 WHO consultation on the implementation of the GAS to identify how different stakeholders frame alcohol use and control; and to assess how stakeholders engage with the consultation process, with possibly harmful consequences for public health policy. METHODS All submissions from WHO Member States, international organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academic institutions and private sector entities were identified and used as data for an inductive framing analysis. This involved close reading and data familiarisation, thematic coding and identifying emergent framings. Through the analysis of texts, framing analysis can give insights into the values and interests of stakeholders. Because framing influences how issues are conceptualised and addressed, framing analysis is a useful tool to study policy-making processes. RESULTS We identified 161 unique submissions and seven attachments. Emerging frames were grouped according to their function: defining the problem, assigning causation, proposing solutions, or justifying and persuading. Submissions varied in terms of the framing they deployed and how this was presented, eg, how the problem was defined. Proposed policy solutions also varied. Targeted solutions emphasising individual responsibility tended to be supported by industry and some Member States. Calls for universal regulation and global mobilisation often came from NGOs and academia. Stakeholders drew on evidence and specific value systems to support the adoption of certain problem and solution ideas and to oppose competing framing. CONCLUSION Alcohol control is a contested policy field in which different stakeholders use framing to set the agenda and influence what policy solutions are considered legitimate. WHO should consider which interests are served by these different framings and how to weigh different stakeholders in the consultation process.
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- Chiara Rinaldi
- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Fleming‐Milici F, Phaneuf L, Harris JL. Marketing of sugar-sweetened children's drinks and parents' misperceptions about benefits for young children. MATERNAL & CHILD NUTRITION 2022; 18:e13338. [PMID: 35199914 PMCID: PMC9218304 DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Despite expert recommendations, US parents often serve sugar-sweetened children's drinks, including sweetened fruit-flavoured drinks and toddler milks, to young children. This qualitative research explored parents' understanding of common marketing tactics used to promote these drinks and whether they mislead parents to believe the drinks are healthy and/or necessary for children. We conducted nine focus groups in Washington, DC and Hartford, CT with parents of children (9-36 months) of diverse race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (N = 50). Semistructured discussions elicited parents' responses to four concepts designed to correct common misperceptions about toddler milks and sweetened fruit-flavoured drinks (fruit drinks and flavoured waters) by providing information about drink ingredients and potentially misleading marketing tactics. Participants expressed widespread misperceptions about sweetened fruit-flavoured drinks and toddler milks, including perceived healthfulness and benefits for children and confusion between sweetened and unsweetened drink categories (sweetened fruit-flavoured drinks vs. juice, toddler milk vs. infant formula). They confirmed that common marketing strategies contributed to misperceptions, including front-of-package claims and marketing messages that imply benefits for children and/or hide problematic ingredients; cross-branding and product extensions from trusted brands; side-by-side shelf placement at retailers; lower price than healthier products; and targeted marketing to children and parents. Some parents expressed anger about deceptive marketing and supported increased regulation and consumer education campaigns. Findings support the need for policies to address potentially misleading marketing of sweetened fruit-flavoured drinks and toddler milks and revealed opportunities to reduce parents' provision of these drinks through countermarketing campaigns communicated via trusted sources.
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- Present address:
Waldo County General Hospital, MaineHealthBelfastMEUSA
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- Rudd Center for Food Policy & HealthUniversity of ConnecticutHartfordConnecticutUSA
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Ares G, Antúnez L, de León C, Alcaire F, Vidal L, Natero V, Otterbring T. 'Even if you don't pay attention to it, you know it's there': A qualitative exploration of adolescents' experiences with digital food marketing. Appetite 2022; 176:106128. [PMID: 35718311 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to digital food marketing. However, research on adolescents' recall, awareness, and opinions of this type of marketing is still scarce. Accordingly, the present study aimed to conduct an in-depth examination of adolescents' experiences with digital food marketing. A convenience sample of 209 adolescents was recruited at two private educational institutions and a public health facility in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay. Semi-structured group interviews were conducted, recorded in audio and transcribed. The transcripts were analyzed using content analysis based on a deductive-inductive approach. Results showed that participants were highly exposed to digital food marketing, as they all remembered having seen advertisements, with those of fast-food restaurants and food-ordering apps being the most frequently mentioned. According to the adolescents' accounts, images, colors, music, oversized portions, product novelty, price promotions and celebrities were the most memorable aspects of food advertisements. Participants recognized the effect of advertisements on product awareness and wanting, and, to a lesser extent, on actual purchase and consumption behavior. Factors that were thought to mediate the impact of digital marketing on food choice were also identified. In the final part of the interviews, participants proposed strategies to reduce the effect of digital marketing on their food choices, which included both regulatory approaches to reduce exposure to digital marketing of unhealthy foods and behavior change communication. Together, the current findings provide insights for the development of multifaceted strategies to reduce the effects of digital food marketing on the eating habits of adolescents.
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- Gastón Ares
- Sensometrics & Consumer Science, Instituto Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, By Pass de Rutas 8 y 101 s/n. CP 91000. Pando, Canelones, Uruguay.
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- Sensometrics & Consumer Science, Instituto Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, By Pass de Rutas 8 y 101 s/n. CP 91000. Pando, Canelones, Uruguay
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- Sensometrics & Consumer Science, Instituto Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, By Pass de Rutas 8 y 101 s/n. CP 91000. Pando, Canelones, Uruguay
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- Sensometrics & Consumer Science, Instituto Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, By Pass de Rutas 8 y 101 s/n. CP 91000. Pando, Canelones, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Alimentos, Escuela de Nutrición, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- School of Business and Law, Department of Management, University of Agder, Universitetsveien 17, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway; Institute of Retail Economics, Regeringsgatan 60, 103 29, Stockholm, Sweden
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Lipkus IM, Mays D, Sheeran P, Pan W, Cameron LD, De Brigard F. Effects of mental simulation of future waterpipe tobacco smoking on attitudes, perceived harms and intended use among young adults. J Behav Med 2022; 45:76-89. [PMID: 34406549 PMCID: PMC8821143 DOI: 10.1007/s10865-021-00245-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The desire to engage in waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) may occur when smokers and nonsmokers conjure positive mental simulations of WTS. However, effects of these simulations on desire to smoke waterpipe tobacco and potential mediators are unexplored. This research addressed these effects among young adult waterpipe tobacco smokers and nonsmokers. Two online studies were conducted with adults ages 18-30. In Study 1, 200 smokers, 190 susceptible nonsmokers, and 182 nonsusceptible nonsmokers were randomized to mentally simulate or not WTS in the future. In Study 2, 234 smokers and 241 susceptible nonsmokers were randomized to four arms: no simulation or simulations that varied valence of experience (positive, negative or no valence provided). Main outcomes were immediate desire to smoke waterpipe tobacco, cognitive and affective attitudes, and perceived harms. In Study 1, mental simulations increased the desire to smoke waterpipe tobacco among smokers. In Study 2, asking participants to simulate WTS positively or with no valence instruction increased desire to smoke relative to negative valence instruction or no simulation. Negative simulations reduced perceived probability of smoking within a month compared to positive simulations. Effects on desire to engage in WTS were mediated by cognitive and affective attitudes among susceptible nonsmokers and by cognitive attitudes among smokers. These findings suggest that exploring when and how often mental simulations about WTS are evoked and their potency for promoting prevention and cessation of WTS merit further attention.
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- Center for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, USA
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- Duke University School of Nursing
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van Schalkwyk MCI, Petticrew M, Maani N, Hawkins B, Bonell C, Katikireddi SV, Knai C. Distilling the curriculum: An analysis of alcohol industry-funded school-based youth education programmes. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0259560. [PMID: 35020741 PMCID: PMC8754310 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND AIM For decades, corporations such as the tobacco and fossil fuel industries have used youth education programmes and schools to disseminate discourses, ideas and values favourable to their positions, and to pre-empt regulation that threatens profits. However, there is no systematic research into alcohol industry-funded youth education programmes. This article serves to address this important gap in the literature. METHODS Using a discourse theoretical approach informed by poststructural discourse theory and critical discourse analysis, we analysed teaching materials from three school-based youth education initiatives which focus on alcohol consumption and health harms: Drinkaware for Education, The Smashed Project (funded by Diageo), and Talk About Alcohol (Alcohol Education Trust). These materials, some of which are disseminated internationally, are provided to schools through intermediary bodies in receipt of alcohol industry funding. FINDINGS The analysis found that these materials drew from and presented discourses of personal responsibility, moderate alcohol consumption, and involved a narrowing of the problem definition and causes. The locus of the problem is located by the discourses within individuals including youth, with causes of youth alcohol consumption repeatedly presented as peer pressure and 'poor choices', with little or no mention of alcohol industry marketing or other practices. All programmes promoted familiarisation and normalisation of alcohol as a 'normal' adult consumer product which children must learn about and master how to use responsibly when older. The discourses constructed in these materials closely align with those of other alcohol industry corporate social responsibility discourses which employ selective presentation of harms, including misinformation about cancer, and ambiguous terms such as "responsible drinking". Furthermore, the role of alcohol price, availability and access, and the impacts of alcohol and the industry on inequities were not articulated within the discourses. The research was limited to an analysis of teaching materials and further research is needed to explore their impact on youth, teachers and wider discourses and social norms. CONCLUSION Alcohol industry-sponsored youth education programmes serve industry interests and promote moderate consumption while purportedly educating children about harms and influences of alcohol use. There are considerable conflicts of interest in the delivery of alcohol education programmes funded by the alcohol industry and intermediary bodies in receipt of such funding. Alcohol education materials should be developed independent from industry, including funding, and should empower children and young people to understand and think critically about alcohol, including harms and drivers of consumption, and effective interventions needed to protect them and others from alcohol-related harms. Independent organisations can use this analysis to critique their materials to strengthen alignment with meeting student and public health interests. The ongoing exposure of children and young people to such conflicted and misleading materials needs urgent attention from policymakers, practitioners, teachers and parents, and resources dependent on industry support should cease being used in schools.
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- May C. I. van Schalkwyk
- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- SPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), London, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- SPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), London, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- SPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), London, United Kingdom
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Lee K, Freudenberg N. Public Health Roles in Addressing Commercial Determinants of Health. Annu Rev Public Health 2022; 43:375-395. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-052220-020447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The shared challenges posed by the production and distribution of health-harming products have led to growing recognition of the need for policy learning and transfer across problems, populations, and social contexts. The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) can serve as a unifying concept to describe the population health consequences arising from for-profit actors and activities, along with the social structures that sustain them. Strategies to mitigate harms from CDoH have focused on behavioral change, regulation, fiscal policies, consumer and citizen activism, and litigation. While there is evidence of effective measures for each strategy, approaches that combine strategies are generally more impactful. Filling gaps in evidence can inform ways of adapting these strategies to specific populations and social contexts. Overall, CDoH are addressed most effectively not through siloed efforts to reduce consumption of health-harming products, but instead as a set of integrated strategies to reduce exposures to health-harming commercial actors and activities. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 43 is April 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Kelley Lee
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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- School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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Miller A, Cassidy O, Greene T, Arshonsky J, Albert SL, Bragg MA. A Qualitative Analysis of Black and White Adolescents' Perceptions of and Responses to Racially Targeted Food and Drink Commercials on Television. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:ijerph182111563. [PMID: 34770078 PMCID: PMC8583111 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182111563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Food and beverage marketing is a major driver of childhood obesity, and companies target their least nutritious products to Black youth. However, little is known about adolescents' perceptions of and responses to racially targeted food marketing. In this qualitative study, we investigated how Black and White adolescents perceived and responded to racially targeted television commercials for food and beverages. We recruited 39 adolescents aged 12-17 years in New York City to watch a series of commercials and then participate in an in-depth interview using a semi-structured interview guide. The research team recorded, transcribed, and analyzed interviews using ATLAS.ti. Overall, participants responded positively to commercials that featured celebrities. They were also able to recognize the commercials and reported they had been exposed to marketing from these companies on social media and in subways/buses. Many participants considered the advertised brands as healthy or able to enhance athletic performance because of their endorsement by or association with athletes. Participants also understood that marketers were using racial targeting in their ads but that targeting did not translate into improved perceptions or responses towards advertised products. These findings suggest the need to empirically evaluate and further explore Black and White adolescents' responses to racially targeted food marketing.
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- Alysa Miller
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison St., 1059 BSB, Chicago, IL 60607, USA;
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- Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, 180 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; (O.C.); (T.G.); (J.A.); (S.L.A.)
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- Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, 180 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; (O.C.); (T.G.); (J.A.); (S.L.A.)
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- Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, 180 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; (O.C.); (T.G.); (J.A.); (S.L.A.)
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- Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, 180 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; (O.C.); (T.G.); (J.A.); (S.L.A.)
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- Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, 180 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; (O.C.); (T.G.); (J.A.); (S.L.A.)
- Department of Public Health Nutrition, NYU School of Global Public Health, 708 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA
- Correspondence:
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Dorfman L. Warning: Don't Let the Beverage Industry Harm Your Kids. Am J Public Health 2021; 111:1905-1906. [PMID: 34709853 PMCID: PMC8630473 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2021.306522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Lori Dorfman
- Lori Dorfman is with the Division of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Media Studies Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA
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Krieger J, Kwon T, Ruiz R, Walkinshaw LP, Yan J, Roberto CA. Countermarketing About Fruit Drinks, Alone or With Water Promotion: A 2019 Randomized Controlled Trial in Latinx Parents. Am J Public Health 2021; 111:1997-2007. [PMID: 34709859 PMCID: PMC8630474 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2021.306488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Objectives. To test whether fruit drink countermarketing messages alone or combined with water promotion messages reduce Latinx parents' purchases of fruit drinks for children aged 0 to 5 years. Methods. We performed a 3-arm randomized controlled online trial enrolling 1628 Latinx parents in the United States during October and November 2019. We assessed the effect of culturally tailored fruit drink countermarketing messages (fruit drink‒only group), countermarketing and water promotion messages combined (combination group), or car-seat safety messages (control) delivered via Facebook groups for 6 weeks on parental beverage choices from a simulated online store. Results. The proportion of parents choosing fruit drinks decreased by 13.7 percentage points in the fruit drink‒only group (95% confidence interval [CI] = -20.0, -7.4; P < .001) and by 19.2 percentage points in the combination group (95% CI = -25.0, -13.4; P < .001) relative to control. Water selection increased in both groups. Conclusions. Fruit drink countermarketing messages, alone or combined with water promotion messages, significantly decreased parental selection of fruit drinks and increased water selection for their children. Public Health Implications. Countermarketing social media messages may be an effective and low-cost intervention for reducing parents' fruit drink purchases for their children. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(11):1997-2007. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306488).
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- James Krieger
- James Krieger and Lina Pinero Walkinshaw are with the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Taehoon Kwon is with the Department of Economics, University of Washington. Rudy Ruiz is with Interlex, San Antonio, TX. Jiali Yan and Christina A. Roberto are with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- James Krieger and Lina Pinero Walkinshaw are with the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Taehoon Kwon is with the Department of Economics, University of Washington. Rudy Ruiz is with Interlex, San Antonio, TX. Jiali Yan and Christina A. Roberto are with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- James Krieger and Lina Pinero Walkinshaw are with the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Taehoon Kwon is with the Department of Economics, University of Washington. Rudy Ruiz is with Interlex, San Antonio, TX. Jiali Yan and Christina A. Roberto are with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- James Krieger and Lina Pinero Walkinshaw are with the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Taehoon Kwon is with the Department of Economics, University of Washington. Rudy Ruiz is with Interlex, San Antonio, TX. Jiali Yan and Christina A. Roberto are with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- James Krieger and Lina Pinero Walkinshaw are with the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Taehoon Kwon is with the Department of Economics, University of Washington. Rudy Ruiz is with Interlex, San Antonio, TX. Jiali Yan and Christina A. Roberto are with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- James Krieger and Lina Pinero Walkinshaw are with the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Taehoon Kwon is with the Department of Economics, University of Washington. Rudy Ruiz is with Interlex, San Antonio, TX. Jiali Yan and Christina A. Roberto are with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Dale MJ, Carroll SJ, Daniel M. The conflict between Public Health and 'Big Food': A Counterinsurgency? Health Promot J Austr 2021; 33:614-617. [PMID: 34543486 DOI: 10.1002/hpja.544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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This commentary characterises as an insurgency those elements of the Food Industry seeking to retain and expand industry profit-making opportunity with scant regard to the effect on public health and wellbeing. Premised on a conflict in which the battlespace encompasses the drivers of (un)healthful behaviour, our view encourages opponents of Food Industry methods to consider an approach based on analogy of successful Counter-Insurgency strategies to a health promotion context.
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- Michael J Dale
- Australian Geo-Spatial Health Laboratory, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Australian Geo-Spatial Health Laboratory, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Australian Geo-Spatial Health Laboratory, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia.,Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
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van Schalkwyk MCI, Petticrew M, Cassidy R, Adams P, McKee M, Reynolds J, Orford J. A public health approach to gambling regulation: countering powerful influences. LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 6:e614-e619. [PMID: 34166631 DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(21)00098-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Often portrayed as a harmless leisure activity in the UK, gambling is being increasingly recognised as a public health concern. However, a gambling policy system that explicitly tackles public health concerns and confronts the dependencies and conflicts of interest that undermine the public good is absent in the UK. Although there is a window of opportunity to change the gambling policy system, with the UK Government's launch of a review of the Gambling Act 2005, the adoption of a comprehensive and meaningful public health approach is not guaranteed. Too often, government policy has employed discourses that align more closely with those of the gambling industry than with those of the individuals, families, and communities affected by the harms of gambling. In view of the well described commercial determinants of health and corporate behaviour, an immense effort will be needed to shift the gambling discourse to protect public health. In this Viewpoint, we seek to advance this agenda by identifying elements that need challenging and stimulating debate.
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- May C I van Schalkwyk
- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; SPECTRUM Consortium, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
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- Centre for Addiction Research, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Strebel J, Terry MB. Alcohol, Binge Drinking, and Cancer Risk: Accelerating Public Health Messaging Through Countermarketing. Am J Public Health 2021; 111:812-814. [PMID: 33826398 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2021.306233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Judi Strebel
- Judi Strebel is with the Department of Marketing, Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Mary Beth Terry is with the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Judi Strebel is with the Department of Marketing, Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Mary Beth Terry is with the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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Kraak VI, Consavage Stanley K. A Systematic Scoping Review of Media Campaigns to Develop a Typology to Evaluate Their Collective Impact on Promoting Healthy Hydration Behaviors and Reducing Sugary Beverage Health Risks. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:ijerph18031040. [PMID: 33503920 PMCID: PMC7908303 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18031040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Interventions to discourage sugary beverages and encourage water consumption have produced modest and unsustainable behavioral changes to reduce obesity and noncommunicable disease risks. This systematic scoping review examined media campaigns to develop a typology to support healthy hydration nonalcoholic beverage behaviors. Our three-step methodology included the following: (1) review and summarize expert-recommended healthy beverage guidelines; (2) review six English-language electronic databases guided by PRISMA to describe existing campaign types by issue, goal and underlying theory; and (3) develop a media campaign typology to support policies, systems and environments to encourage healthy hydration behaviors. Results showed no international consensus for healthy beverage guidelines, though we describe expert-recommended healthy beverage guidelines for the United States. Of 909 records identified, we included 24 articles describing distinct media campaigns and nine sources that defined models, schemes or taxonomies. The final media campaign typology included: (1) corporate advertising, marketing or entertainment; (2) corporate social responsibility, public relations/cause marketing; (3) social marketing; (4) public information, awareness, education/ health promotion; (5) media advocacy/countermarketing; and (6) political or public policy. This proof-of-concept media campaign typology can be used to evaluate their collective impact and support for a social change movement to reduce sugary beverage health risks and to encourage healthy hydration behaviors.
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Dixon H, Scully M, Gascoyne C, Wakefield M. Can counter-advertising diminish persuasive effects of conventional and pseudo-healthy unhealthy food product advertising on parents?: an experimental study. BMC Public Health 2020; 20:1781. [PMID: 33238936 PMCID: PMC7687848 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-09881-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background To help address rising rates of obesity in children, evidence is needed concerning impacts of common forms of marketing for unhealthy child-oriented food products and the efficacy of educational interventions in counteracting any detrimental impacts of such marketing. This study aims to explore parents’ responses to advertising for unhealthy children’s food products that employ different types of persuasive appeals and test whether a counter-advertising intervention exposing industry motives and marketing strategies can bolster parents’ resistance to influence by unhealthy product advertising. Methods N = 1613 Australian parents were randomly assigned to view online either a: (A) non-food ad (control); (B) conventional confectionery ad (highlighting sensory benefits of the product); (C) pseudo-healthy confectionery ad (promoting sensory benefits and health attributes of the product); (D) conventional confectionery ad + counter-ad (employing inoculation-style messaging and narrative communication elements); (E) pseudo-healthy confectionery ad + counter-ad. Parents then viewed various snacks, including those promoted in the food ads and counter-ad. Parents nominated their preferred product, then rated the products. Results Exposure to the conventional confectionery ad increased parents’ preference for the advertised product, enhanced perceptions of the product’s healthiness and reduced sugar content and boosted brand attitude. Exposure to the pseudo-healthy confectionery ad increased parents’ preference for the advertised product, and enhanced perceptions of healthiness, fibre content and lower sugar content. The counter-ad diminished, but did not eliminate, product ad effects on parents’ purchasing preference, product perceptions and brand attitudes. The counter-ad also prompted parents to perceive processed foods as less healthy, higher in sugar and lower in fibre and may have increased support for advertising regulation. Conclusions Exposure to unhealthy product advertising promoted favourable perceptions of products and increased preferences for advertised products among parents. Counter-advertising interventions may bolster parents’ resistance to persuasion by unhealthy product advertising and empower parents to more accurately evaluate advertised food products. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-020-09881-1.
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- Helen Dixon
- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia. .,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
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- Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia.,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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Can counter-advertising protect spectators of elite sport against the influence of unhealthy food and beverage sponsorship? A naturalistic trial. Soc Sci Med 2020; 266:113415. [PMID: 33126095 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVE Unhealthy, energy-dense nutrient-poor foods and beverages are heavily promoted through sport sponsorship. This naturalistic trial assessed whether exposing young adult spectators to various types of counter-advertising (CA) before watching an unhealthy food sponsored elite sporting event could diminish sponsorship effects and increase support for restrictions on sponsorship. METHOD Young adults (ages 18-29 years) who planned to watch the Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final were recruited through an online panel and randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (A) control (neutral advertisement); (B) anti-industry CA (critiquing unhealthy food industry sponsorship of sport); (C) anti-product CA (critiquing the association of sports stars with unhealthy food); or (D) negative health effects CA (highlighting negative health consequences of unhealthy food consumption). Participants (N = 1316) completed a pre-test questionnaire and viewed their assigned CA online 1-3 days before watching the 2017 AFL Grand Final, which featured unhealthy food sponsorship. RESULTS Participants who reported watching the AFL Grand Final (n = 802) answered post-test measures within five days of the event. Results indicated that participants found the anti-industry CA more believable, attention-grabbing, reassuring and encouraging than the anti-product CA. The anti-industry CA promoted less favourable attitudes to sponsor brands, the anti-product CA promoted reduced intentions to purchase the fast-food sponsor brand, and the negative health effects CA reduced preferences for fast food in general compared to the control condition. CONCLUSIONS Anti-industry CA may detract from favourable attitudes to unhealthy food sponsor brands and negative health effects CA may detract from intentions to consume fast food in the face of unhealthy food sponsorship exposure. Such interventions may require higher dosage levels than applied in the present study to bolster spectators' resistance to the surfeit of unhealthy food sport sponsorship.
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Harris JL. Targeted Food Marketing to Black and Hispanic Consumers: The Tobacco Playbook. Am J Public Health 2020; 110:271-272. [PMID: 32023097 PMCID: PMC7002963 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2019.305518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Jennifer L Harris
- Jennifer L. Harris is with the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, and an independent consultant specializing in marketing and public health
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Kearns CE, Glantz SA, Apollonio DE. In defense of sugar: a critical analysis of rhetorical strategies used in The Sugar Association's award-winning 1976 public relations campaign. BMC Public Health 2019; 19:1150. [PMID: 31438900 PMCID: PMC6704551 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7401-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In 1976, the U.S. Sugar Association (SA), a globally networked trade organization representing the cane and beet sugar industry, won the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award for a crisis communication campaign. Their campaign successfully limited the diffusion of sugar restriction policies to control obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and dental caries, and marked the beginning of the modern-day SA. The sugar industry continues to resist measures to reduce sugar consumption, therefore understanding and addressing industry opposition is crucial to achieving global targets to reduce non-communicable disease. METHODS We critically analyze common crisis management rhetorical strategies used by SA to defend itself from perceived wrongdoing, and sugar from perceptions of harm using a thematic content analysis based on Hearit's Corporate Apologia theory. Data sources were internal SA documents related to the 1976 Silver Anvil Award in 1) PRSA records, 2) Great Western Sugar Company records, and 3) William Jefferson Darby Papers. RESULTS SA, using prototypical apologia stances (counterattack, differentiation, apology, and corrective action) and rhetorical dissociation strategies (appearance/reality, opinion/knowledge, and act/essence) constructed a persuasive narrative to successfully defend sugar from a product safety crisis, and the sugar industry from a social legitimacy crisis. SA's overarching narrative was that restricting sugar, which it claimed was a valuable food that makes healthy foods more palatable, would cause harm and that claims to the contrary were made by opportunists, pseudoscientists, food-faddists, lay nutritionists or those who had been misled by them. SA's apologia does not meet criteria for truthfulness or sincerity. CONCLUSION Corporate apologia theory provides an accessible way of understanding sugar industry crisis communication strategies. It enables public health actors to recognize and predict industry corporate apologia in response to ongoing product safety and social legitimacy challenges. Industry counterarguments can be examined for truthfulness and sincerity (or the lack thereof), and explained to policymakers considering sugar restriction policies, and to the public, thereby decreasing the effectiveness of illegitimate industry communication efforts to oppose regulation and legislation.
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- Cristin E. Kearns
- Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
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Ramírez AS, Ramondt S, Van Bogart K, Perez-Zuniga R. Public Awareness of Air Pollution and Health Threats: Challenges and Opportunities for Communication Strategies To Improve Environmental Health Literacy. JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION 2019; 24:75-83. [PMID: 30730281 PMCID: PMC6688599 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2019.1574320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Accurate, timely information can be a powerful tool to mitigate harmful effects of air pollution. While national guidelines for environmental risk communication - based on risk and crisis communication principles - exist, little is known how these are operationalized, nor about the effectiveness of existing communication efforts. Moreover, a growing literature on environmental health literacy suggests that communication about environmental risks must move beyond individual behavior education to empower communities to mobilize to reduce environmental threats. This study aimed to identify and critically evaluate public sources of information about the causes and controllability of air pollution and its health effects, and potential disparities in information reach and utility. The case study triangulated data from three sources: Systematic analysis of the public information environment, interviews with regional expert stakeholders, and interviews with community residents. Three themes emerged: 1) Lack of clarity about responsibility for communicating about air quality (information sources), 2) Existing air quality communication strategies lack critical information including risk mitigation behaviors and long-term health impacts (information quality), and 3) Existing air quality communications fail to reach vulnerable populations (information reach). This study demonstrates that air quality communication is lacking yet crucially needed. Information about air pollution and health risks focuses on individual risk behaviors but is disseminated using channels that are unlikely to reach the most vulnerable populations. We discuss opportunities to improve the reach and impact of communication of air quality health risks, an increasingly important global priority, situating our argument within a critical environmental health literacy perspective.
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- A Susana Ramírez
- a School of Social Sciences, Humanities, & Arts , University of California , Merced , USA
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- a School of Social Sciences, Humanities, & Arts , University of California , Merced , USA
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- a School of Social Sciences, Humanities, & Arts , University of California , Merced , USA
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- a School of Social Sciences, Humanities, & Arts , University of California , Merced , USA
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“Technology enabled Health” – Insights from twitter analytics with a socio-technical perspective. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Isselmann DiSantis K, Kumanyika S, Carter-Edwards L, Rohm Young D, Grier SA, Lassiter V. Sensitizing Black Adult and Youth Consumers to Targeted Food Marketing Tactics in Their Environments. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2017; 14:E1316. [PMID: 29109377 PMCID: PMC5707955 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14111316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2017] [Revised: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Food marketing environments of Black American consumers are heavily affected by ethnically-targeted marketing of sugar sweetened beverages, fast foods, and other products that may contribute to caloric overconsumption. This qualitative study assessed Black consumers' responses to targeted marketing. Black adults (2 mixed gender groups; total n = 30) and youth (2 gender specific groups; total n = 35) from two U.S. communities participated before and after a sensitization procedure-a critical practice used to understand social justice concerns. Pre-sensitization focus groups elicited responses to scenarios about various targeted marketing tactics. Participants were then given an informational booklet about targeted marketing to Black Americans, and all returned for the second (post-sensitization) focus group one week later. Conventional qualitative content analysis of transcripts identified several salient themes: seeing the marketer's perspective ("it's about demand"; "consumers choose"), respect for community ("marketers are setting us up for failure"; "making wrong assumptions"), and food environments as a social justice issue ("no one is watching the door"; "I didn't realize"). Effects of sensitization were reflected in participants' stated reactions to the information in the booklet, and also in the relative occurrence of marketer-oriented themes and social justice-oriented themes, respectively, less and more after sensitization.
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- Department of Community Health and Prevention, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 4111 McGavran-Greenberg Hall, CB #7469, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, 100 S. Los Robles, 2nd Floor, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
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- Kogod School of Business, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20016, USA.
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- Social Science Research Council, One Pierrepont Plaza (300 Cadman Plaza West), 15th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA.
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