Unintended Consequences: Ambiguity Neglect and Policy Ineffectiveness

Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy.

Submitted by dallison on Tue, 10/08/2013 9:34am Title Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy. Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2013 Authors Brown, AW, Allison, DB Journal Virtual Mentor Volume 15 Issue 4 Pagination 339-46 Date Published 2013 ISSN 1937-7010

China’s One-child Policy: Some Unintended Consequences

This paper gives a brief overview of China’s family planning policy which, although recently relaxed, still controls a large swath of the population. Unofficially known as the ‘one-child policy’, it resulted from the social strife of the 1970s coupled with a Malthusian pessimism concerning the capability of the still largely closed and isolated Chinese economy to care for itself. We discuss the...

The ineffectiveness and unintended consequences of the public health war on obesity.

The public health war on obesity has had little impact on obesity prevalence and has resulted in unintended consequences. Its ineffectiveness has been attributed to: 1) heavy focus on individual-based approaches and lack of scaled-up socio-environmental policies and programs, 2) modest effects of interventions in reducing and preventing obesity at the population level, and 3) inappropriate focu...

Unintended Consequences.

Child Neglect: Developmental Consequences, Intervention, and Policy Implications

This paper reviews the literature on child neglect with respect to child outcomes, prevention and intervention, and implications for policy. First, the prevalence of the problem is discussed and then potential negative outcomes for neglected children, including behavior problems, low self-esteem, poor school performance, and maladjustment/psychopathology, are discussed. Risk factors and current...