Promoting health in the digital environment: health policy experts' responses to on-demand delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Services offering on-demand delivery of unhealthy commodities, such as fast food, alcohol and smoking/vaping products have proliferated in recent years. It is well known that the built environment can be health promoting or harmful to health, but there has been less consideration of the digital envi...

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Publicado en:Health Promotion International Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16
Autores principales: McKerchar, Christina, Bidwell, Susan, Curl, Angela, Pocock, Tessa, Cowie, Matt, Miles, Hannah, Crossin, Rose
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Aug2023
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          McKerchar, Christina
          Bidwell, Susan
          Curl, Angela
          Pocock, Tessa
          Cowie, Matt
          Miles, Hannah
          Crossin, Rose
        affil: Department of Population Health, University of Otago Christchurch , Christchurch , New Zealand
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          Built Environment New Zealand
          Ethanol
          Fast Foods
          Health Policy
          Public Policy
          Health Promotion
          Digital Technology Utilization
          Health Policy Studies
          Alcohols
          New Zealand
          Qualitative Studies
          Funding Source
          Critical Theory
          Social Justice
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Purposive Sample
      ab: Services offering on-demand delivery of unhealthy commodities, such as fast food, alcohol and smoking/vaping products have proliferated in recent years. It is well known that the built environment can be health promoting or harmful to health, but there has been less consideration of the digital environment. Increased availability and accessibility of these commodities may be associated with increased consumption, with harmful public health implications. Policy regulating the supply of these commodities was developed before the introduction of on-demand services and has not kept pace with the digital environment. This paper reports on semi-structured interviews with health policy experts on the health harms of the uptake in on-demand delivery of food, alcohol and smoking/vaping products, along with their views on policies that might mitigate these harms. We interviewed 14 policy experts from central and local government agencies and ministries, health authorities, non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and university research positions in Aotearoa New Zealand using a purposive sampling strategy. Participants concerns over the health harms from on-demand services encompassed three broad themes—the expansion of access to and availability of unhealthy commodities, the inadequacy of existing restrictions and regulations in the digital environment and the expansion of personalized marketing and promotional platforms for unhealthy commodities. Health policy experts' proposals to mitigate harms included: limiting access and availability, updating regulations and boosting enforcement and limiting promotion and marketing. Collectively, these findings and proposals can inform future research and public health policy decisions to address harms posed by on-demand delivery of unhealthy commodities.
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