Setting Limits

Gambling, Science and Public Policy
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-881732-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collecting money from players to distribute to companies, state budgets, and other beneficiaries. Many of these are civil society organizations, using the money for producing services in sports, culture, social work, and health care. However, gambling can also develop into
pathological behaviour.

Using a public interest framework, this book discusses the policies that will best serve the public good and minimize individual and collective harms. After describing the historical context of the gambling and the current global burden of the activity, available methods of regulating the industry are evaluated using the available scientific evidence. By analysing the effectiveness of gambling policies and their alignment with the public interest, the epidemiological obstacles to successful
regulation are considered in detail. There is good evidence for the effectiveness of restrictions on availability and access, but preventing gambling-related harm is not possible without limiting the overall volume of the activity, and hence the profits for the gambling industry and governments.

Taking an international approach, this book delivers a comprehensive review of the epidemiological evidence documenting the harmful effects of gambling on individuals, communities, and societies. Essential reading for policymakers, social and behavioural scientists in gambling research, and public health researchers, Setting Limits examines a global view of an emerging epidemic of gambling problems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sulkunen, Pekka

Room, Robin

Babor, Thomas F.

Rossow, Ingeborg

Cisneros Ornberg, Jenny

Egerer, Michael

Hellman, Matilda

Livingstone, Charles

Marionneau, Virve

Nikkinen, Janne

Orford, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Pekka Sulkunen, PhD, Professor Emeritus and former Director, Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG), Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland

Thomas F. Babor, PhD, MPH, Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine Connecticut, United States of America

Thomas F. Babor, PhD, MPH, Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine Connecticut, United States of America

Michael Egerer, PhD, Researcher, Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG), Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland

Matilda Hellman, PhD, Adjunct Professor (title of docent), Director, Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG); Department of Social Research; University of Helsinki, Finland

Charles Livingstone, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Virve Marionneau, PhD, Researcher, Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG), Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland

Janne Nikkinen, Docent in Social Ethics, Researcher, Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG), Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland

Jim Orford, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Clinical and Community Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Robin Room, PhD, Professor, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Sweden; Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Ingeborg Rossow, PhD, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway