Are Perceptions of Government Intervention Related to Support for Prevention? An Australian Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Australia, despite the success of tobacco control policy interventions, policymakers remain resistant to policy-based approaches to diet, alcohol, physical inactivity and obesity, concerned about community perceptions of such interventions as "nanny-statist". We examined how people's general positions on government intervention related to their positions on different preventive policy options.

Methods

Data were from a 2018 nationally representative cross-sectional telephone survey of 2601 Australian adults. Survey questions related to endorsement of different conceptualisations of government intervention (nanny state, paternalistic, shared responsibility and communitarian) and support for specific health interventions, using forced-choice questions about prefer

SUBMITTER: Grunseit AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10177783 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature