ReviewThe Lancet. Public health2024
Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends.
Review in The Lancet. Public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neurophysiological Correlates of Near-Wins in Gambling: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Pooled it
- Balancing harm prevention and liberty preservation when implementing financial risk assessments for gambling in the United Kingdom: Insights from open banking data.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Efficacy of the School Gambling Prevention Program "What's at stake?": A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Trends and Gender Differences in Gambling with Money between 2018 and 2021: A Population-Based Study among 60,331 Spanish Adolescents.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Weighing the Harm: Direct Elicitation of Gambling Harm Severity Through Expert Evaluation of Narrative Accounts.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- A significant minority of Dutch gambling adverts on social media illegally targeted and likely reached under-24s: Assessing compliance using Meta's advertising repository mandated by the EU Digital Services Act.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Gambling Behavior and Subjective Well-Being.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Public health implications of the deregulation and privatization of online and sports gambling in Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- Towards Stronger Gambling Regulation in Ghana: A Critical Frame Analysis of Ghana Gaming Act.Public health challenges · 2026Article
- Gambling help seeking and self-management in New Zealand and Australia: a cross-sectional survey with quota sampling of priority populations.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Assessment of gambling perspectives amongst elite Irish athletes; A qualitative analysis.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Online gambling as a public health and regulatory challenge: moving beyond individual responsibility.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- "No one takes it seriously": U.S. military personnel with gambling concerns: recommendations for expanding treatment and public health efforts.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Beyond cognitive distortions: the mediating role of passion between erroneous cognitions and gambling severity.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
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- Regulatory Whack-a-mole: A Rapid Scoping Review of Gambling Marketing Restrictions and their (in)Effectiveness.Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Gambling behaviors in Israeli adults: findings from a nationally representative sample.Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- What do they say they are doing? a mixed-methods analysis of Swedish gambling operators' duty of care action plans.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Scaling Up the Evidence: What Open Banking Brings to Gambling Research and Policy.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
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Abstract
The public health community has called for governments to recognise the harms associated with gambling, and for gambling policies to include population-based harm prevention approaches. This Health Policy explores the translation of this call into global policy action by systematically reviewing legislation of jurisdictions that introduced major gambling legislation change (ie, restricting or extending gambling provision) between Jan 1, 2018, and Dec 31, 2021. We mapped the global availability of legal gambling and changes in its provision, and conducted critical frame analysis on a sample of 33 jurisdictions introducing major policy change to assess the extent to which the protection of health and wellbeing was embedded within legislation. More than 80% of countries worldwide now legally permit gambling. Harmful gambling was recognised as a health and wellbeing issue in most of the analysed jurisdictions, but near-exclusive focus was given to individual-level harms rather than to wider social and economic harms, or harms to others. Most of the proposed prevention measures focused on individual responsibility. Gambling policies worldwide are changing, but addressing gambling as a public health issue is not yet translating into comprehensive policy action across jurisdictions.
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