Health
Older people's risk of abuse is rising. Can an ad campaign protect them?
Elder abuse is an emerging public health and safety issue for communities of high-income countries.
Jul 25, 2024
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News tagged with advertising campaigns
Addiction
Research highlights global impact of smokeless tobacco use
A team from the University of York and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), in collaboration with the ASTRA (Addressing Smokeless Tobacco and Building Research Capacity in South Asia) consortium, conducted a comprehensive ...
May 31, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Viewpoint: Solving period poverty is about more than just making products free
Upward of 2.8 billion people do not have access to safe sanitation. A third of the world's population doesn't have a toilet.
Jan 24, 2023
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Medications
Less than a third of heavily advertised drugs have 'high therapeutic value': study
Television ads for drugs are filled with glowing images of people living their best lives, all thanks to that new med they've been prescribed.
Jan 19, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
More home test kits could prevent 11,000 bowel cancer deaths, study finds
More than 11,000 bowel cancer deaths could be prevented by simply sending an additional invitation to people who have not yet been screened, a new study by the University of Sheffield has found.
Jul 5, 2022
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Health
Successful health campaigns during COVID-19 need to manage our altered ideas about the future
Typically, public health campaigns such as "Together, let's stop HIV stigma," "Enjoy the outdoors, without a tick" or "#Fightflu" rely on repetitive reminders of a single message to shape the behaviours of their target audience. ...
Jul 1, 2021
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Health
Did COVID-19 stress, uncertainty stall anti-smoking push?
A year after COVID-19 upended life for millions of Americans, there are troubling signs that the coronavirus may have also slowed progress against another deadly health threat: smoking.
Mar 28, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People think marketing and political campaigns use psychology to influence their behaviors
A new study has shown that whilst people think advertising and political campaigns exploit psychological research to control their unconscious behaviours, ultimately they feel the choices they make are still their own.
Dec 23, 2019
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Medical research
How to make anti-smoking campaigns more persuasive
The damaging effects of smoking on our health are well known, and governments are curbing tobacco advertising to reduce the number of smokers. But, in Indonesia, the number of teens and adults who smoke continue to grow at ...
May 31, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Soft-core pornography viewers 'unlikely to hold positive attitudes towards women'
Frequent viewers of soft-core pornography, such as photographs of naked and semi-naked female models, are unlikely to think positively about women and are likely to have become desensitised to soft-core pornography common ...
Jun 15, 2016
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