BACKGROUND Deliberative engagement techniques and citizens' juries are touted as means of incorporating the public into policy decision-making, managing community expectations and increasing commitment to public health policy. This paper reports a study to examine the feasibility of citizens' juries as a means of collecting data to inform public health policy related to food regulation through ...

OBJECTIVE To determine parents' and children's attitudes towards food, beverage and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports and the acceptability of policies and alternative funding models to limit this sponsorship. DESIGN Telephone surveys were conducted with parents in February-May 2011. One child from each household was invited to complete an online survey. Surveys assessed pare...

3 MARCH 2006 Sport is important in many people’s lives. For professional athletes it represents their occupation, for amateur athletes their vocation, and for many millions of spectators, watching it is their favoured recreational activity. Sport today is big business: product promotion and sponsorship continue to rise at an extraordinary rate. For an athlete, the difference between a gold and ...

Purpose The purpose of this study is by drawing on signaling theory to address the need for more investigation into conceptual underpinnings sponsorships investigating and seeking understand sponsorship objectives, opinions practices, with a focus smaller organisations. Design/methodology/approach This empirical contributes literature through researched findings from German respondents critical...