TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Public health tools for holding self-regulators accountable: lessons from the alcohol experience
JO  - Health promotion practice
A1  - Jernigan, David H.
SP  - 336
EP  - 340
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
N2  - Self-regulation is a common strategy used by industries to avoid or supplement statutory health and safety regulation of their products and practices. The public health experience with self-regulation in the alcohol industry provides methods and lessons relevant to health educators and advocates working in other public health fields. Methods for and examples and limitations of monitoring content and placement of marketing messages are described. The alcohol experience shows that, although self-regulation has many drawbacks in terms of protecting the health of the public, there are tools available for valid monitoring of self-regulated activities that, when combined with aggressive dissemination of results to media and policy makers, can make self-regulation more accountable and build an evidence base for effective measures to be taken.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1524-8399
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839911404233
ID  - ref1
ER  -