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Do promotions of healthier or more sustainable foods increase sales? Findings from three natural experiments in UK supermarkets
BackgroundDietary changes are necessary to improve population health and meet environmental sustainability targets. Here we analyse the impact of...
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Supermarket promotions in Western Sweden are incompatible with Nordic dietary recommendations and differ by area-level socioeconomic index
BackgroundLarge supermarket chains produce weekly advertisements to promote foods and influence consumer purchases. The broad consumer reach of these...
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Food industry perspectives on potential policies targeting unhealthy food and beverage price promotions in Australian supermarkets
Current supermarket price promotions are likely to encourage unhealthy diets, leading some governments to recently endorse restrictions on price...
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How do underage youth access e-cigarettes in settings with minimum age sales restriction laws? A sco** review
BackgroundDespite measures to reduce young people’s access to electronic cigarettes (ECs), or “vapes”, many countries have recorded rising youth...
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Components in downstream health promotions to reduce sugar intake among adults: a systematic review
Excessive sugar consumption is well documented as a common risk factor for many Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Thus, an adequate intervention...
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The nature of food promotions over one year in circulars from leading Belgian supermarket chains
BackgroundTo examine the proportion of healthier and less healthy food promotions in circulars of major Belgian supermarket chains.
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Estimating the lagged effect of price discounting: a time-series study on sugar sweetened beverage purchasing in a supermarket
BackgroundPrice discount is an unregulated obesogenic environmental risk factor for the purchasing of unhealthy food, including Sugar Sweetened...
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Sales promotion in health and medicine: using incentives to stimulate patient interest and attention
BackgroundSales promotion—the use of incentives to encourage patronage—is a staple of marketing communications in the health services industry. Sales...
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Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives in the United States and China: The Need for Professional Public Space
Pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) are one of the most frequently used drug information sources for physicians in both the United States and...
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The benefits and challenges of taxing sugar in a small island state: an interrupted time series analysis
BackgroundBeverage and food taxes have become a popular ‘best buy’ public health intervention in the global battle to tackle noncommunicable...
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The potential cost-effectiveness of mandatory restrictions on price promotions for sugar-sweetened beverages in Australia
BackgroundRestricting price promotions on unhealthy foods and beverages has been identified by governments as a promising approach for improving...
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Personal selling in health and medicine: using sales agents to engage audiences
BackgroundPersonal selling—the use of sales agents to personally deliver messages to target audiences—is often not the first conveyance pathway that...
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Online sales compliance with the electronic cigarettes ban in India: a content analysis
ObjectivesTo investigate the availability of and to characterise the internet electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) vendors (IEVs) that continued to...
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Making hospital shops healthier: evaluating the implementation of a mandatory standard for limiting food products and promotions in hospital retail outlets
BackgroundThe range of products stocked and their promotions in food retail outlets in healthcare settings can affect food choices by staff, patients...
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The effects of an abrupt increase in taxes on candy and soda in Norway: an observational study of retail sales
BackgroundFiscal policies are used to promote a healthier diet; however, there is still a call for real-world evaluations of taxes on unhealthy foods...
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The attitude and acceptability towards medical promotional tools and their influence on physicians’ prescribing practices in Jordan and Iraq: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundPharmaceutical companies spend more than one-third of their sales revenue on marketing and promotion directed toward healthcare...
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Food and Beverage Price Promotions: an Untapped Policy Target for Improving Population Diets and Health
Purpose of ReviewThe price of foods and beverages is a critical driver of food choice, particularly among families and households with limited food...
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The impact of shelf tags with Nutri-Score on consumer purchases: a difference-in-difference analysis of a natural experiment in supermarkets of a major retailer in Belgium
BackgroundDelhaize, a major Belgian retailer, started implementing electronic shelf labels (ESL) with Nutri-Score since May 2019. Nutri-Score rates...
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E-cigarette Use and Regulation in South Africa: a Synthesis of Evidence in Response to Industry Efforts to Undermine Product Regulation
Purpose of ReviewThis narrative review of the published scientific literature on e-cigarettes in South Africa examines and responds to reports...
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Real-world nudging, pricing, and mobile physical activity coaching was insufficient to improve lifestyle behaviours and cardiometabolic health: the Supreme Nudge parallel cluster-randomised controlled supermarket trial
BackgroundContext-specific interventions may contribute to sustained behaviour change and improved health outcomes. We evaluated the real-world...
