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Associations Between Immigration-Related User Factors and eHealth Activities for Self-Care: Case of First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway
Project Panopia: cost-effective model for glaucoma referral refinement from community optometrists without the need for repeat testing
Embracing a Health Services Research Perspective on Personal Health Records: Lessons Learned from the VA My HealtheVet System
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Measurement of Rural Poverty: The Case of Iran
Iran, middle East, participation, poverty measurement, rural poverty,
Advertising and children: Issues and policy options
This article reviews the debate regarding the issue of growing obesity in society in terms of issues and possible policy options. The issue is most focused on children though having obvious ramifications for adults in many economies around the world. Policy solutions such as advertising bans or taxes that have been proposed in several countries seem to be based on insufficient evidence - i.e., there is no empirical evidence to substantiate the claimed causal effect between marketing communication practices directed at children and nutrition. These solutions, if enacted in policy, could be both inequitable and ineffective. While the study is couched and framed from a New Zealand context, nonetheless it serves to illuminate issues and policies of wider relevance. Copyright © 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved