Posted: 02/08/2021
This year’s BCbD Annual Lecture will take place online on 30 September 2021 from 11.00am to 12.00noon. Register here
“Regulating the Commercial Determinants of Health. Could strategic litigation be an effective way forward” by Professor Amandine Garde from the University of Liverpool
Posted: 19/07/2021
Smoking remains one of the largest risk factors for preventable disease and is also one of the major contributors to the gap in life expectancy and years lived in good health between the most and least affluent groups.
The size of a pack is one of the last few ways that tobacco companies can directly encourage smoking. Read more about the need for evidence to show whether capping cigarette pack sizes would help people to cut down their smoking here.
Posted: 14/06/2021
Our new systematic review protocol is now published in the Cochrane Library. This protocol is an update to a previous review published in 2018, which found that adding calorie labels to menus and next to food in restaurants, coffee shops and cafeterias, could reduce the calories that people consume, although the quality of evidence was low.
Posted: 26/05/2021
Health warning labels (HWLs) on tobacco products reduce smoking. Initial findings suggest HWLs can reduce alcohol selection in online hypothetical studies, but there is an absence of evidence on their impact on selection or purchasing in naturalistic settings.
