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“They make it seem harmless”: a qualitative investigation into women’s perceptions about novel gambling promotions and public relations strategies [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground The gambling industry uses a range of marketing strategies to increase the appeal and normalisation of their products. While there has been significant focus on how the gambling industry targets young men, there is evidence that the industry ...
Simone McCarthy +3 more
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A Critical Analysis of Interventions for Women Harmed by Others’ Gambling
Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 At present, gambling studies literature has multiple understandings of family and others affected (FAOs) by gambling harm and their support needs in play, each with different possibilities and constraints for harm reduction engagement with women ...
Katie Palmer du Preez +3 more
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How Do State Gambling Monopolies Affect Levels of Gambling Harm? [PDF]
Current Addiction Reports, 2021 AbstractPurpose of ReviewThis systematic literature review evaluates the potential of gambling monopolies to affect gambling harms. It compares the occurrence of gambling harms in jurisdictions with gambling monopolies to jurisdictions with license-based regimes.Recent FindingsThe review identified 21 publications concerning three gambling-related harm
Virve Marionneau +2 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background There is little longitudinal evidence on the cumulative risk of harm from gambling associated with excess spending and frequency of play. The present study sought to assess the risk of gambling problems over a five-year period in adults who ...
Shawn R. Currie +3 more
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Adolescent Gambling, Gambling Expenditure and Gambling–Related Harms in Finland, 2011–2017 [PDF]
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2019 Abstract Existing literature on recent trends in adolescent gambling is scarce. The rapidly changing landscape of gambling, together with the generally applied legal age limits, calls for the continuous monitoring of gambling also among the adolescent population. In Finland, the legal gambling age is 18.
Susanna Raisamo +4 more
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Gambling-related harms attributable to lotteries products [PDF]
Addictive Behaviors, 2020 Lotteries products (lottery tickets and scratch tickets) are the most popular forms of gambling worldwide, however little research has investigated whether these products are associated with gambling-related harm. The limited available research suggests these products are linked to problematic gambling behaviors and a range of resulting negative ...
Booth, Leon +7 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Bingo is often understood as a low-harm form of gambling. This view has been challenged by a growing body of literature identifying gambling harm to bingo players in a range of countries.
Kathleen Maltzahn +4 more
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Parliamentary Debates on Gambling Policies as Political Action
Critical Gambling Studies, 2022 The aims of this paper are twofold: first, to demonstrate the importance and relevance of interpretive political analysis to gambling research and second, to analyze from the aforementioned perspective why politicians in Finland talk about gambling harm
Jani Selin
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Does size really matter: a review of the role of stake and prize levels in relation to gambling-related harm [PDF]
, 2013 Regulatory and industry decisions influencing commercial gambling activities require clear understanding of the role that stakes and prizes play in the development and facilitation of gambling-related harm.
Parke, Adrian, Parke, Jonathan
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'Risky places?': mapping gambling machine density and socio-economic deprivation [PDF]
, 2014 The aims of this project were to map the location and density of gambling machines in Britain; to explore whether geographic areas with higher densities of machines exist and to examine the socio-economic characteristics of these areas relative to others.
Astbury, Gaynor +3 more
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