June Leung

Dados Biográficos

ID9064603
NOMEJune Leung
PRENOMESJune
SOBRENOMELeung
ASSINATURALEUNG J
AFILIAÇÕESMassey University
ORCID0000-0001-8448-9584
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS5
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR5
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards

    Open AccessJune Leung, Sally Casswell et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…

  • Effective alcohol policies and lifetime abstinence

    Open AccessJune Leung, Sally Casswell et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2023

  • The WHO Foundation should not accept donations from the alcohol industry

    Open AccessJune Leung, Sally CasswellARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    box The WHO Foundation, established to fundraise for WHO, does not explicitly preclude funding from the alcohol industry, exposing WHO to potential influence by the industry’s conflicting interests. The WHO Foundation’s Gift Acceptance Policy also lacks transparency, preventing public scrutiny of donations. To protect the independence and integrity of WHO, the WHO Foundation should not accept any donations from the alcohol industry. WHO needs fur…

  • Socioeconomic disparities in preterm birth and birth weight in a non-Western developed setting

    June Y Y Leung, June Leung et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2016Referências: 31

    BACKGROUND: Preterm birth (PTB), low birth weight and small-for-gestational age (SGA) are associated with lower socioeconomic position (SEP) in developed Western settings, but it is unclear if such disparities persist to the same extent elsewhere, and whether associations differ by measure of SEP used. Here, we assessed the association of SEP with PTB, birth weight and SGA in the recently developed non-Western setting of Hong Kong where few women…

  • What lessons does the Covid-19 pandemic hold for global alcohol policy

    June Leung, June Yue Yan Leung et al.

    box COVID-19 is a ‘syndemic’, its impact exacerbated by existing socioeconomic inequalities that also underpin the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).1 Lockdown measures have changed patterns of alcohol consumption and disrupted the provision of health services for people with NCDs. Moreover, insufficient vaccines and therapeutics, combined with a higher burden of NCDs, mean that some low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) such a…