Alcohol industry involvement in policymaking: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: To summarize the substantive findings of studies of alcohol industry involvement in national or supranational policymaking, and to produce a new synthesis of current evidence. This study examined peer-reviewed journal reports published in the English language between 1980 and 2016 of studies of alcohol industry involvement in policymaking. Included studies were required to provide information on data collection and analysis and to have sought explicitly to investigate interventions by alcohol industry actors within the process of public policymaking. Eight electronic databases were searched on 27 February 2017. The methodological strengths and limitations of individual studies and the literature as a whole were examined. A thematic synthesis using an inductive approach to the generation of

SUBMITTER: McCambridge J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6100095 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature