Will the government's mass media campaign on drugs work?

Will the government's mass media campaign on drugs work?

Impact of a Mass Media Vasectomy Promotion Campaign in Brazil

Volume 22, Number 4, December 1996 and endorsement by party members4 and to educational campaigns that provide specific information relevant to sterilization candidates’ needs.5 In Africa, where vasectomy is very rarely used, a Kenyan nongovernmental organization implemented a mass media vasectomy promotion project in 1992–1994.6 The intervention, conducted by Innovative Communication Systems, ...

DRAFT ! Will Consolidation Improve Sub - National Governments ?

Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Recent Experiences with Consolidation ...................................................................................................................... 4 Consolidation and the Costs of Delivering Government Ser...

Differences in the perception of a mass media information campaign on drug and alcohol consumption

The two-month mass media campaign in Belgium on drug and alcohol consumption “Alcohol and other drugs. The facts and fictions” initiated in January 2008 has been evaluated shortly after by a phone survey. This article reports some indicators on the public awareness of the campaign, and the differences in the perception according to age groups and education levels. About 1,000 respondents (n=1,0...

Will a Fat Tax Work? Will a Fat Tax Work?

BACKGROUND Of the many proposals to counter the obesity epidemic, the most contentious is the use of the “fat tax”. Previous investigations of the efficacy of price-based initiatives in altering consumption behavior have yielded contradictory findings. METHODS We use six years of milk sales data from 1,500 stores to investigate whether price incentives induce substitution to healthier alternati...