OBJECTIVE Food marketing is linked to childhood obesity through its influence on children's food preferences, purchase requests and food consumption. We aimed to describe the volume and nature of outdoor food advertisements and factors associated with outdoor food advertising in the area surrounding Australian primary schools. METHODS Forty primary schools in Sydney and Wollongong were select...

Intentional or unintentional leakage of confidential data is undoubtedly one of the most severe security threats that organizations face in the digital era. Most of the advertisements are posted from any consumers that are displayed in social network profiles. If user clicks on the advertisements, it will redirect to another page. That page may be original or fake. If it is a fake advertisement...

OBJECTIVE To document the types of foods advertised and weight-related nutritional claims made during advertisements appearing on general market and African American television programming. DESIGN Content analysis of 553 food advertisements appearing during 101.5 prime-time television hours. OUTCOME MEASURES Advertisements were classified according to general category (fast-food restaurant,...

Food advertisements on mainstream television have received less research attention than those on children's television. Little is known about how television food advertisements vary internationally or if there have been changes over recent years. We describe food-related television advertisements and the nutrient content of foods advertised during prime-time television in Ontario, Canada and th...

AbstractPrint advertisements not only directly try to persuade buyers but also indirectly play a role in shaping their social attitude. An interesting area of research that as yet has received little or no attention is the study of the representations of females in magazines that their readers are mostly women. This study examined print advertisements in local family and health magazine from a ...

In this paper we consider the issue of advertising to children. Advertising to children raises a number of concerns, in particular the effects of food advertising on children's eating habits. We point out that virtually all the research into children's understanding of advertising has focused on traditional television advertisements, but much marketing aimed at children is now via the Internet ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the increasing use of UV tanning parlors by adolescents, despite the World Health Organization recommendation that no one under the age of 18 years use UV tanning devices. DESIGN We examined tanning advertisements in a sample of public high school newspapers published between 2001 and 2005 in 3 Colorado counties encompassing the Denver metropolitan area. RESULTS Tanning...

nowadays medical journals around the world have proven their vital role in communities’ health. nevertheless, one important question is always arising regarding these journals that are whether they should publish any advertisements? the aimed of the present review article was to discuss different issues raised whenever one would like to answer this question. in 2013, the pub med search engine w...

the present study examined the effects of using english in products advertisements published in magazines in iran on their persian-speaking target audiences. 180 respondents, classified based on their gender and education, participated in this study. respondents’ perceptions of the product/brand image and attitudes towards the advertisements, their purchasing intention, and degrees of their com...

background: traditional cigarette advertising has existed in the us for over 200 years. studies suggest that advertising has an impact on the initiation and maintenance of smoking behaviors. in recent years, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) emerged on the market as an alternative to the traditional tobacco cigarette. the purpose of this study was to describe advertisements in popular us mag...