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13-Nov-2025

High-engagement social media posts related to prescription drug promotion for 3 major drug classes

About The Study: The current analysis illustrates that drug promotion content is frequently posted by individual creators, lacks essential risk information, and bears the hallmarks of undisclosed marketing. These findings suggest that posts circumvented established advertising principles and potentially eroded the fair balance crucial for informed patient decision-making, consistent with prior literature on traditional direct-to-consumer advertising’s impact on prescribing.

Journal: JAMA

13-Nov-2025

A public health strategy with teeth could be a magic bullet for UK government

City St George’s, University of London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Unhealthy lifestyles in deprived communities are stoking a series of economic and policy challenges in the UK, a new paper from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) suggests.

The paper says health inequalities between the richest and poorest have reversed the post-1945 increase in life expectancy, while boosting both NHS waiting lists and welfare spending. It has also driven the politically toxic post-Brexit rise in immigration through distorting local labour markets – exacerbating other national challenges such as the housing shortage.

Without a major drive aimed at deterring unhealthy lifestyles, the paper warns, health inequalities and the economic and social pressures they breed will continue to soar.

Journal: Risks

13-Nov-2025

The world’s healthiest countries aren’t the richest, according to new study

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wealth alone doesn’t make a nation healthy, according to new collaborative research from the University of Surrey and its international partners which ranks 38 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries on their progress toward global health goals.

Journal: Annals of Operations Research

13-Nov-2025

Efficiency rankings used by governments and businesses may not be accurate, according to new research

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For decades, governments, banks, hospitals and schools have relied on data tools to decide who is efficient and who is not. However, according to new research from the University Surrey, many of these rankings are flawed, because they ignore the impact of time and shocks like recessions or pandemics.

Journal: Expert Systems with Applications

13-Nov-2025

How agricultural subsidy policies drive the transformation of agrifood systems？

Higher Education Press

Recently, Associate Professor Xiaolong Feng from the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University, together with researchers from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), has addressed these questions through a comparative analysis of agricultural subsidy policies in China and Africa. The related article has been published in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2025624).

Journal: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering

13-Nov-2025

How China–Africa cooperation addresses resource, environmental, and climate challenges through agrifood system transformation？

Higher Education Press

Recently, an in-depth study addressing this question was jointly conducted by Associate Professor Ting Meng from the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University, in collaboration with researchers from the Research Institute for Eco-civilization of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Alliance of Biodiversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Senegal). The study offers systematic solutions for developing countries, and the related article was published in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2025646).

Journal: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering

13-Nov-2025

Fair fare

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher and policy planners from Sakai City investigated the effect of a train fare subsidy program on daily walking steps. The results revealed that the intervention group subsidized with 1000 redeemable points significantly increased daily walking steps by 711.43 steps/day for prime-aged adults.

Journal: Research in Transportation Economics
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science