Policy Approaches for Regulating Alcohol Marketing in a Global Context: A Public Health Perspective.

Alcohol consumption is responsible for 3.3 million deaths globally or nearly 6% of all deaths. Alcohol use contributes to both communicable and noncommunicable diseases, as well as violence and injuries. The purpose of this review is to discuss, in the context of the expansion of transnational alcohol corporations and harms associated with alcohol use, policy options for regulating exposure to alcohol marketing. We first provide an overview of the public health problem of harmful alcohol consumption and describe the association between exposure to alcohol marketing and alcohol consumption. We then discuss the growth and concentration of global alcohol corporations and their marketing practices in low- and middle-income countries, as well as in higher-income societies. We review the use and effectiveness of various approaches for regulating alcohol marketing in various countries before discussing challenges and opportunities to protect public health.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Annual Review of Public Health

• Publication date

  2018-04-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-014711PMID 29608872
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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