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Tobacco Health Warning Messages on Plain Cigarette Packs and in Television Campaigns: A Qualitative Study with Australian Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Smokers
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Guillaumier, Ashleigh; Bonevski, Billie; Paul, Christine – Health Education Research, 2015
Television advertisements, packaging regulations and health warning labels (HWLs) are designed to communicate anti-smoking messages to large number of smokers. However, only a few studies have examined how high smoking prevalence groups respond to these warnings. This study explored how socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers engage with health…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Qualitative Research
Characteristics of Participants in Australia's Get Healthy Telephone-Based Lifestyle Information and Coaching Service: Reaching Disadvantaged Communities and Those Most at Need
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O'Hara, Blythe J.; Phongsavan, Philayrath; Venugopal, Kamalesh; Bauman, Adrian E. – Health Education Research, 2011
To address increasing rates of overweight and obesity, a population-based telephone intervention was introduced in New South Wales, Australia. The Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service[R] (GHS) offered participants a 6-month coaching program or detailed self-help information. Determining the population reach of GHS is of public health…
Descriptors: Obesity, Television Commercials, Employment Level, Legislators
Children's Television in Australia.
Murray, John P. – Phaedrus, 1978
Reviews developments in the television industry in Australia with specific reference to children's television. Advertising regulations and research and publications related to children's television are also noted. (RAO)
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Childrens Television, Commercial Television, Foreign Culture
Socioeconomic Background and Children's Cognitive Abilities in Relation to Television Advertisements.
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Giudicatti, V.; Stening, B. W. – Journal of Psychology, 1980
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
An International Comparison of Children's Television Programming.
Fleiss, David; Ambrosino, Lillian – 1971
The results of a comparison of television programming for children in the United States, Canada, Japan, and the democracies of Western Europe are presented. It was found that: in European countries no advertiser is allowed to sponsor a children's program, almost none of these programs carries commercials, and except in Italy, no host of a…
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Comparative Analysis, National Programs, Programing (Broadcast)
An International Comparison of Children's Television Programming.
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Fleiss, David; Ambrosino, Lillian – 1971
The results of a comparison of television programming for children in the United States, Canada, Japan, and the democracies of Western Eruope are presented. It was found that: in European countries no advertiser is allowed to sponsor a children's program, almost none of these programs carries commercials, and except in Italy, no host of a…
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Comparative Analysis, National Programs, Programing (Broadcast)
TV Advertising's General Impact on Children -- A Follow-up.
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Rossiter, John – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1979
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Long-Term Effectiveness of Mass Media Led Antismoking Campaigns in Australia.
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Pierce, John P.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1990
Examines the long-term effects of two Australian community antismoking campaigns that used television advertising to set the community agenda. Finds that, at the beginning of the campaigns, there was an immediate 2 percent drop in male and female smoking prevalence, followed by a 1.5 percent decline per year among males. (FMW)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Females
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Box? Children and TV Advertising in Four Countries.
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Collins, Jude; And Others – Educational Media International, 1992
Describes a study of nine year olds in Ireland, Australia, the United States, and Norway that investigated their attitudes to television advertising and the connection to buying patterns in their families. Highlights include enjoyment of television ads, parallels between television programs and ads, and perceived influence of ads on parents.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Television Advertising and Children: Issues, Research and Findings.
Esserman, June F., Ed. – 1981
This volume consists of 10 papers dealing with issues, research and research findings regarding the effects of television advertising on children. The first paper critically examines recent research literature which bears on policy questions related to the effects of television advertising on children. Findings from a study designed to examine…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comprehension, Consumer Economics