Reducing the Role of the Food, Tobacco, and Alcohol Industries in Noncommunicable Disease Risk in South Africa

Autor/inn/en	Delobelle, Peter; Sanders, David; Puoane, Thandi; Freudenberg, Nicholas
Titel	Reducing the Role of the Food, Tobacco, and Alcohol Industries in Noncommunicable Disease Risk in South Africa
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 43 (2016) 1, S.70 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198115610568
Schlagwörter	Risk; Smoking; Drinking; Foreign Countries; Food Service; Diseases; Eating Habits; Health Behavior; Corporations; Physical Activities; Health Promotion; Retailing; Marketing; Private Financial Support; Health Education; Behavior Change; Federal Legislation; Health Services; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Risiko; Rauchen; Trinken; Ausland; Disease; Krankheit; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Unternehmen; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Warenwirtschaft; Private Investition; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Bundesrecht; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) impose a growing burden on the health, economy, and development of South Africa. According to the World Health Organization, four risk factors, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity, account for a significant proportion of major NCDs. We analyze the role of tobacco, alcohol, and food corporations in promoting NCD risk and unhealthy lifestyles in South Africa and in exacerbating inequities in NCD distribution among populations. Through their business practices such as product design, marketing, retail distribution, and pricing and their business practices such as lobbying, public relations, philanthropy, and sponsored research, national and transnational corporations in South Africa shape the social and physical environments that structure opportunities for NCD risk behavior. Since the election of a democratic government in 1994, the South African government and civil society groups have used regulation, public education, health services, and community mobilization to modify corporate practices that increase NCD risk. By expanding the practice of health education to include activities that seek to modify the practices of corporations as well as individuals, South Africa can reduce the growing burden of NCDs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01