Jim Mccambridge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 328312 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jim Mccambridge |
| PRENOMES | Jim |
| SOBRENOME | Mccambridge |
| ASSINATURA | MCCAMBRIDGE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5461-7001 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Are we moving into a new era for alcohol policy globally? An analysis of the Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-30
The Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-30 (GAAP) represents an important milestone in policy implementation at the global level on alcohol and health. There has, however, been little attention paid to the GAAP in the research literature. With a focus on the alcohol industry, this analysis examines the content of, and prospects for, the GAAP. It is clear why stronger action on alcohol and health is needed. The health harming nature of alcohol and pol…
Obituary
Kyp's alcohol research interests were many and varied in topic, in scope and in methods. Early work focused on consumption and harm among tertiary students, and interventions to reduce harm from alcohol at individual and population level, including trials of web-based screening and brief interventions. Important bodies of later work focused on measuring the effects of alcohol policy on consumption and harm, on conflict of interest in alcohol scie…
Brief interventions 2.0
BACKGROUND: Alcohol problems are increasing across the world and becoming more complex. Limitations to international evidence and practice mean that the screening and brief intervention paradigm forged in the 1980s is no longer fit for the purpose of informing how conversations about alcohol should take place in healthcare and other services. A new paradigm for brief interventions has been called for. BRIEF INTERVENTIONS 2.0: We must start with a…
Continuities and change in alcohol policy at the global level
BACKGROUND: There are only two major statements which define alcohol policy development at the global level. There has not been any comparative analysis of the details of these key texts, published in 2010 and 2022 respectively, including how far they constitute similar or evolving approaches to alcohol harm. METHODS: Preparatory data collection involved examination of documents associated with the final policy statements. A thematic analysis acr…
Randomised study of the effects of sense of entitlement and conflict of interest contrarianism on researcher decision-making to work with the alcohol industry
Holding contrarian views on conflict of interest could make researchers more open to working with industry. This study shows how it is possible to study researcher decision-making using quantitative experimental methods
From the tobacco industry's uses of science for public relations purposes to the alcohol industry
Distilling the distillers
BACKGROUND: Understanding of the alcohol industry's means of influencing public policy is increasingly well established. Less is known, however, about the specific organisations that lead the political strategies of the alcohol industry. To fill this gap, this paper explores the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), a key trade association in the United States (US), which also operates internationally. METHODS: This study explo…
Constructing public–private partnerships to undermine the public interest
BACKGROUND: The global burden of alcohol harm has increased and is forecast to grow further without effective policy implementation. Public-private partnerships aiming to address global health, and other societal challenges, are a burgeoning feature of neoliberal governance. Rhetorically distancing themselves from tobacco, the major alcohol companies are committed to tackling 'harmful drinking' and have created a distinct type of public relations…
Evolution of the major alcohol companies key global policy vehicle through the prism of tax records 2011–19
BACKGROUND: Important insights have been generated into the nature of the activities of the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP). Its successor, the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) is less well understood. This study aims to rectify evidence limitations on the political activities of the alcohol industry at the global level. METHODS: Internal Revenue Service filings were examined for ICAP and IARD each year betw…
Really putting a different slant on my use of a glass of wine’
Including alcohol in SMRs and changing the framing of alcohol away from a brief check with little meaningful scope for discussion, toward being fully integrated within the consultation, was welcomed as a concept by participants in this study. This was not their current medication review experience
Alcohol policy framing in South Africa during the early stages of Covid-19
Crisis conditions can provide new openings for public health (and industry) actors to make salient particular features of alcohol and alcohol policy evidence
Recruitment, risks, rewards and regrets
Doing violence to evidence on violence? How the alcohol industry created doubt in order to influence policy
A long‐brewing crisis
“Using information to shape perception”
BACKGROUND: The Miller Brewing Company (MBC) was wholly owned by Phillip Morris (PM), between 1970 and 2002. Tobacco industry document studies identify alliances between the alcohol and tobacco industries to counter U.S. policies in the 1980s and 1990s. This investigation sought to study in-depth inter-relationships between MBC and PM, with a particular focus on alcohol policy issues. We used the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents library to trace …
The alcohol industry, the tobacco industry, and excise taxes in the US 1986–89
The tobacco documents offer a key resource for studying economic interests beyond that of the tobacco industry, operating in collaboration with tobacco companies. Here, brewers advanced shared interests with tobacco, and these findings have implications for advancing understanding of alcohol and tobacco industry political strategies. The findings also suggest that financial documents from other public repositories could be used to generate new in…
Responsible Drinking, Conflicts of Interest, and the Elephant in the Room
First paragraph: As researchers who have analyzed responsible drinking campaigns, we read the above paper (Gray et al., 2020) with interest. We found the paper concerning, not least because the concept of “Responsible Drinking” is highly problematic in ways in which this paper has omitted to discuss. We are also concerned that the paper contains significant misinterpretation of the evidence, and we believe it risks disseminating misinformation ab…
Introducing alcohol as a drug in medicine reviews with pharmacists
Using qualitative process evaluation in the development of a complex intervention to advance person-centred practice by pharmacists
In order to effectively evaluate complex interventions, there have been calls for the further integration of qualitative methods. Qualitative process studies of brief alcohol interventions and medicines reviews are notably lacking. This article provides a grounded example through the presentation of findings from an embedded qualitative process evaluation of a multi-site, pilot cluster RCT of a new intervention: the Medicines and Alcohol Consulta…
Alcohol marketing versus public health
BACKGROUND: Alcohol harms are rising globally, and alcohol policies, where they exist, are weak or under-developed. Limited progress has been made since the formulation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Strategy in 2010. WHO is seeking to accelerate progress in implementing international efforts to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. The threat to global health posed by tobacco is well understood by policy communities and populations g…
The ‘snowball effect’
Despite extensive evidence of bias resulting from industry sponsorship of research across health sciences, and longstanding concerns about alcohol industry research funding, there has not been a strong tradition of empirical research on this subject. This study explores researcher decision-making regarding industry funding at the early career stage and the consequences of such funding. Data were derived from semi-structured interviews with resear…
Smokeless tobacco products, supply chain and retailers’ practices in England
ST products are widely available in England, yet non-compliant with statutory regulations. In order to safeguard consumers, in particular ethnic South Asians, stronger efforts are needed to regulate the supply chain of ST at both national and international levels
Policy communities, devolution and policy transfer
This study investigates how processes of horizontal policy transfer can unfold in the context of devolution, examining the development of legislation on minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Wales, following on from Scotland's earlier policy decision. The study draws on a range of sources, including primary documents, media coverage, and interviews with policy participants. Our analysis identifies the importance of the specific character of Welsh politic…
Alcohol, cardiovascular disease and industry funding
Systematic reviews undertaken by authors with histories of alcohol industry funding were more likely to study broader outcomes, and be cited more widely, and exclusively reported favorable conclusions
Waiting for the wave
Existing research has identified numerous barriers to the adoption of public health policies for alcohol, including the cross-cutting nature of the policy problem and industry influence. Recent developments in Ireland suggest that while formidable, such barriers can be overcome. Ireland's 2018 alcohol legislation adopts key evidence-based measures, introducing pricing, availability and marketing regulations that are world-leading in public health…
Life course epidemiology
Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of physical or social exposures during gestation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and later adult life.”1 Adolescence, the period between childhood and adulthood defined by the WHO as 10–19 years, has an uneasy status in epidemiology. On the one hand, adolescents, who now number over 1.2 billion worldwide—around 20% of the glo…
Policy windows and multiple streams
This article adopts a multiple streams approach to examine the failure to implement minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol in England. It demonstrates that the multiple streams model provides a valuable conceptual tool for explaining how and why policies are, and are not, enacted. However, it finds that while problem streams and policy streams are useful heuristic devices, in practice they may overlap and be mutually constitutive. The case of MUP…
What is the extent and nature of quantitative research in British social work
Industry Actors, Think Tanks, and Alcohol Policy in the United Kingdom
Corporate actors seek to influence alcohol policies through various means, including attempts to shape the evidential content of policy debates. In this case study, we examined how SABMiller engaged the think tank Demos to produce reports on binge drinking, which were heavily promoted among policymakers at crucial stages in the development of the UK government’s 2012 alcohol strategy. One key report coincided with other SABMiller-funded publicati…
Waiting for the wave
Existing research has identified numerous barriers to the adoption of public health policies for alcohol, including the cross-cutting nature of the policy problem and industry influence. Recent developments in Ireland suggest that while formidable, such barriers can be overcome. Ireland's 2018 alcohol legislation adopts key evidence-based measures, introducing pricing, availability and marketing regulations that are world-leading in public health…
Child Risk and Parental Resistance
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centred, directive counselling method. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a two-day workshop in MI for forty social workers in changing self-reported practice over a three-month period, the levels of skills achieved, and factors associated with acquired skills, including the impact of post-workshop supervision. The focus of training was alcohol misuse but participants were encouraged to explore th…
Alcohol policy, multi-level governance and corporate political strategy
The Scottish government's plans for a minimum unit price for alcohol were vehemently opposed by the alcohol industry leading to a 6-year delay in implementation after legislation was passed. This article seeks to explain the consequences of devolution and European Union membership for the development of minimum unit price in Scotland through the concepts of multi-level governance, veto points and venue shifting. Systems of multi-level governance …
Tied up in a legal mess’
This article examines the alcohol industry's legal challenges to minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland through the stages heuristic of the policy process. It builds on previous studies of alcohol pricing policy in Scotland and across the UK, and of the use of legal challenges by health harming industries to oppose health policy globally. Having failed to prevent MUP passing into law, industry actors sought to frustrate the implementation of the …
Policy communities, devolution and policy transfer
This study investigates how processes of horizontal policy transfer can unfold in the context of devolution, examining the development of legislation on minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Wales, following on from Scotland's earlier policy decision. The study draws on a range of sources, including primary documents, media coverage, and interviews with policy participants. Our analysis identifies the importance of the specific character of Welsh politic…
Alcohol, cardiovascular disease and industry funding
Systematic reviews undertaken by authors with histories of alcohol industry funding were more likely to study broader outcomes, and be cited more widely, and exclusively reported favorable conclusions
Drug problem – What problems? Concurrent predictors of selected types of drug problems in a london community sample of young people who use drugs
Four variables potentially indicative of different aspects of drug problems have been selected for study in a community sample of young people aged 16–20 who use drugs; Severity of Dependence Score; Whether or not interactional problems caused by own drug use were experienced; Number of college or work days missed specifically as a result of drug use; and 12-item General Health Questionnaire Score. The study population comprised 200 young cannabi…
Patterns of alcohol consumption and problems among the Irish in London
Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality rates among the Irish in England and Wales are higher than both other ethnic minorities and the general population. Higher consumption per episode of drinking is responsible for higher overall mean consumption levels among the Irish. Patterns of consumption and problems among the Irish were investigated in two samples recruited in pubs in London and Dublin. Mean weekly alcohol consumption was found to be hi…
The DYD-RCT protocol
International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register ISRCTN31070347
What is the extent and nature of quantitative research in British social work
Sexual health risk among dance drug users
Child Risk and Parental Resistance
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centred, directive counselling method. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a two-day workshop in MI for forty social workers in changing self-reported practice over a three-month period, the levels of skills achieved, and factors associated with acquired skills, including the impact of post-workshop supervision. The focus of training was alcohol misuse but participants were encouraged to explore th…
The price of alcohol and the value of the ceteris paribus assumption
There can be few topics in addiction sciences with so much current importance to public policy as the effects of price on levels of alcohol consumption and harms. The actions and apparent inactions
Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for Māori and non-Māori
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) ACTRN12610000279022
Adult Consequences of Late Adolescent Alcohol Consumption
P1-39 In randomisation we trust? Research reactivity produces bias in behaviour change trials
Introduction Behaviour change trials are increasingly important in public health. Although there has been longstanding awareness of pre-test sensitisation and the Hawthorne effect, the implications of participant reactivity in behaviour change trials are largely unstudied. The aim here is to explore the mechanisms by which biases stemming from the unintended consequences of research participation may be introduced in trials. Methods Data from sys…
Cleavages and co-operation in the UK alcohol industry
Alcohol industry corporations and trade associations collaborate with one another effectively where there are shared interests, allowing the best placed bodies to lead on a given issue. Thus, whilst industry actors may be deeply divided on certain issues they are able to coordinate their positions on occasions where there are clear advantages in so doing. Health policymakers may benefit from an awareness of the multiplicity of interests within th…
Alcohol industry influence on UK alcohol policy
The British government has been criticised for according industry interests too much weight in alcohol policy-making. Consequently, it has been argued that alcohol strategy in the UK is built around policies for which the evidence base is weak. This has clear implications for public health. The purpose of this commentary is to map recent developments in UK alcohol policy and related debates within the alcohol policy literature, thus laying the fo…
Effectiveness of alcohol brief intervention delivered by community pharmacists
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN95216873
Alcohol assessment & feedback by e-mail for university student hazardous and harmful drinkers
ISRCTN02335307
Quality of life among hazardous and harmful drinkers
Systematic review of the Hawthorne effect
Age of first drinking and adult alcohol problems
Industry Actors, Think Tanks, and Alcohol Policy in the United Kingdom
Corporate actors seek to influence alcohol policies through various means, including attempts to shape the evidential content of policy debates. In this case study, we examined how SABMiller engaged the think tank Demos to produce reports on binge drinking, which were heavily promoted among policymakers at crucial stages in the development of the UK government’s 2012 alcohol strategy. One key report coincided with other SABMiller-funded publicati…
Large-scale implementation of alcohol brief interventions in new settings in Scotland
This qualitative study suggests that even with significant national support, funding and a specific delivery target, ABI implementation in new settings is not straightforward. Those responsible for planning similar initiatives should critically consider the relevance and value of the five implementation strategies identified
Life course epidemiology
Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of physical or social exposures during gestation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and later adult life.”1 Adolescence, the period between childhood and adulthood defined by the WHO as 10–19 years, has an uneasy status in epidemiology. On the one hand, adolescents, who now number over 1.2 billion worldwide—around 20% of the glo…
User satisfaction with the structure and content of the NEXit intervention, a text messaging-based smoking cessation programme
ISRCTN75766527
Shedding light on research participation effects in behaviour change trials
These participants described no dramatic impacts attributable to taking part in this study. This study demonstrates the likely value of well conducted qualitative studies of subtle research participation effects, which may be particularly important to explore for alcohol. Separating unintended influences in trial participation from the effects of behaviour change interventions being evaluated therein is necessary for valid estimates of interventi…
Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality
BACKGROUND: Alcohol is a risk factor for ill health and reduced life expectancy, but little is known about the impact of alcohol on mortality for people with existing long-term conditions. We used primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) to study relationships between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality among general practice patients with long-term conditions. METHODS: Data were accessed from a sample of 125 …
Alcohol industry involvement in policymaking
Alcohol industry corporate social responsibility initiatives and harmful drinking
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