Social Policies and Health Inequalities

Family Food Providers’ Perceptions of the Causes of Obesity and Effectiveness of Weight Control Strategies in Five Countries in the Asia Pacific Region: A Cross-Sectional Survey

“…Fifth, demographics played only small roles in the SEM. However, the findings were consistent with earlier research [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. For example, older age and female gender were directly and positively associated with Healthy habits and Eat less , sit less .…”

“…Therefore, women and older people may view the causes of obesity differently to men and younger people. Highly educated people also tend to be more health conscious [ 14 ] and more able to afford exercise and dietary innovations [ 15 ], so they may emphasize individual responsibility for obesity. Similarly, being married may positively influence health and food consumption [ 16 ], and the presence of young children in the household may expose food providers to food marketing and obesogenic influences [ 17 , 18 ].…”

The impact of child restraint legislation on the incidence of severe paediatric injury in Chile

“…First, Chile, as a centralised country divided into administrative regions, provided an opportunity to examine an entire national jurisdiction unit over time. Chile can therefore be regarded as a ‘natural policy experiment’ 28 29. Second, as noted by other authors,6 while there is a significant amount of research on the efficacy of CRL in economically developed countries, there remains a paucity of similar research exploiting cross-jurisdictional time-series variation in other regions of the world, particularly in Latin America.…”

Did Chile’s traffic law reform push police enforcement? Understanding Chile’s traffic fatalities and injuries reduction

“…First, unlike other federal countries such as Brazil, Canada or the USA, where traffic reforms may have not been universal, Chile, as a centralised country, provides an opportunity to examine an entire national jurisdiction unit over time. The latter therefore can be regarded as a ‘natural policy experiment’ 29. Furthermore, it is worth noting that under Chile's administrative regime, in which a single national police body is responsible for patrolling traffic, coordination of enforcement should be less problematic and therefore a traffic law reform might uniformly intensify it.…”