University of Helsinki
A new article published in Addiction Research and Theory reviews the gambling literature published by Nordic researchers. The study, which is conducted by Johanna Nordmyr and Anna K. Forsman at Åbo Akademy University, shows that most publications stem from Finland, followed by Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. The University of Helsinki and the National Institute for Health and Welfare are the main gambling research producers in Finland. Continue reading “New analysis on gambling research in the Nordics”
Debate article on marketing of alcohol
Asking consumers to recommend alcohol products and give ideas on their use in interactive mass media platforms is an enormous and cheap marketing resource for the alcohol industry. Swedish regulation and supervision is lagging behind, writes CEACG-researchers Matilda Hellman, Mikaela Lindeman and Johan Svensson in a debate article in the Metro paper this morning. Read the debate article here.
Lifestyle diseases: Responsibility and Ethics
The CEACG is arranging the conference Lifestyle diseases: Responsibility and Ethics in Helsinki 11 -12 June 2018 together with the Nordic Committee on Bioethics, a committee underneath NordForsk. A programme draft can be found here: Lifestyle Disease – Responsibility and Ethics
Background and Scope: Non-communicable diseases (NCD), such as arteriosclerotic vascular disease, heart diseases and stroke, osteoporosis and Type II diabetes, are associated with certain behavioral choices and ways of living. According to Eurostat and the WHO, life expectancy in Europe is currently decreasing due to smoking, drinking and obesity. Continue reading “Lifestyle diseases: Responsibility and Ethics”
NEW ERA-NET PROJECT STARTS TODAY
The official start day of the new A-BRAIN project is today, the 1st of March, 2018. The A-BRAIN project (2018-2021) concerns the implementation of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) and its possible implications for policy and practice. Seen in a wider perspective the project asks what it means when epistemic dogma starts situating the problems of addiction in the brain. How can this kind of knowledge be used and implemented in the most fruitful, sound and ethical ways? How can societies utilize the valuable parts of these discoveries and how does it change the ways in which we deal with addiction? Continue reading “NEW ERA-NET PROJECT STARTS TODAY”
The brain will occupy the new research unit in 2018
As of the beginning of this year the CEACG became a research unit at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The research unit has names in both official languages in Finland. In Finnish: Riippuvuuksien, yhteiskunnallisen sääntelyn ja hallinnan tutkimuskeskus (CEACG), and in Swedish: Center för forskning i beroenden, kontroll och styrning (CEACG) The shortening is pronounced [SE-AGG].
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The new alcohol act: more availability to minors?
Finland is renewing its alcohol act. The government has presented its proposal to the Parliament. It is now being considered and negotiated by the help of expertise hearings. One of these experts is Anu Katainen, university researcher and leader of the Online Marketing of Alcohol– project: “The proposal for the new alcohol act may put an end to the decreasing trend in under-age alcohol consumption which has been continuing for almost two decades now”, she says. Continue reading “The new alcohol act: more availability to minors?”
Gambling policy challenges on Nordic conference
A total of 116 attendees from various parts of the world gather in Helsinki for next week’s 1st Gambling Policy Conference: Global Prospects, Nordic Perspectives. Gerda Reith, Rebecca Cassidy and Charles Livingstone are among the speakers.
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Mental health policy in the era of dehospitalisation
What are the rationales that have underpinned Finnish mental health policies and how has it affected what the core problems are perceived to be? This is discussed in a new doctoral dissertation by CEACG- researcher and group coordinator Anna Alanko. Alanko defends her dissertation on Friday the 22 September.
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’Share & Win!’ – Online Marketing of Alcohol
The Swedish ‘Alkohol & Narkotika’ magazine published on Monday an article about our Online Marketing of Alcohol (OMA) project. The journal has interviewed CEACG-researcher Mikaela Lindeman.
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Welfare state study in the news
Last week the University of Helsinki sent out a press release regarding new CEACG-research on how the welfare state ethos has developed in Finnish Government Programmes from the 1950s up until present days. The study made great headlines throughout the week and the university’s press release was shared 1500 times within a day.
