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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

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62
Citations
14625
World Ranking
474
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Gerard Hastings is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several related subfields including Epidemiology, Applied Psychology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics:

  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention

Gerard Hastings has contributed to a range of publications, often collaborating with frequent coauthors such as Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Viêt Nguyen-Thanh, Pierre Arwidson, Nigel Rollins, and Phillip Baker.

Recent scholarly articles include:

  • Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy (2023, The Lancet)
  • The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress (2023, The Lancet)
  • Selling second best: how infant formula marketing works (2020, Globalization and Health)
  • Maximising the impact of global and national physical activity guidelines: the critical role of communication strategies (2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine)
  • A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of combinations of 'why to reduce' and 'how to reduce' alcohol harm-reduction communications (2021, Addictive Behaviors)

The researcher has published frequently in venues such as Emerald Open Research, The Lancet, Globalization and Health, British Journal of Sports Medicine, and Addictive Behaviors.

Best Publications

  • The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

    Boyd A Swinburn;Boyd A Swinburn;Vivica I Kraak;Steven Allender;Vincent J Atkins

  • Impact of alcohol advertising and media exposure on adolescent alcohol use: a systematic review of longitudinal studies

    Peter Anderson;Avalon de Bruijn;Kathryn Angus;Ross Gordon

  • Systematic reviews of the evidence on the nature, extent and effects of food marketing to children. A retrospective summary

    Georgina Cairns;Kathryn Angus;Gerard Hastings;Martin Caraher

  • Fear appeals in social marketing: Strategic and ethical reasons for concern

    Gerard Hastings;Martine Stead;John Webb

  • Social Marketing: Why Should the Devil Have All the Best Tunes?

    Gerard Hastings

  • Reductions in tobacco smoke pollution and increases in support for smoke-free public places following the implementation of comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation in the Republic of Ireland: findings from the ITC Ireland/UK Survey

    G T Fong;A Hyland;R Borland;D Hammond

  • The conceptual framework of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project

    G T Fong;K M Cummings;R Borland;G Hastings

  • The Extent, Nature and Effects of Food Promotion to Children: A Review of the Evidence to December 2008

    Georgina Cairns;Kathryn Angus;Gerard Hastings

  • A framework for sustainable marketing

    Ross Gordon;Marylyn Carrigan;Gerard Hastings

  • Impact of graphic and text warnings on cigarette packs: findings from four countries over five years

    R Borland;N Wilson;G T Fong;D Hammond

  • The Critical Contribution of Social Marketing: Theory and Application

    Gerard Hastings;Michael Saren

  • Methods of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey

    Mary E. Thompson;G. T. Fong;D. Hammond;C. Boudreau

  • The limitations of fear messages

    Gerard Hastings;Lynn MacFadyen

  • Alcohol marketing and young people's drinking: A review of the research

    Gerard Hastings;Scott K. Anderson;Emma Cooke;Rachael Gordon

  • Support for and reported compliance with smoke-free restaurants and bars by smokers in four countries: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey

    Borland R;Yong Hh;Siahpush M;Hyland A

  • Relational Paradigms in Social Marketing

    Gerard Hastings

  • Promotion of electronic cigarettes: tobacco marketing reinvented?

    Marisa de Andrade;Gerard Hastings;Kathryn Angus

  • International food advertising, pester power and its effects

    Laura McDermott;Terry O'Sullivan;Martine Stead;Gerard Hastings

  • What Is and What Is Not Social Marketing: The Challenge of Reviewing the Evidence

    Laura McDermott;Martine Stead;Gerard Hastings

  • The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control

    Arnab Acharya;Kathryn Angus;Samira Asma;Douglas W Bettcher

  • The critical contribution of social marketing

    Gerard Hastings;Michael Saren

  • SPECIAL ISSUE: THE MESSAGE AND THE MEDIA Impact of Alcohol Advertising and Media Exposure on Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies

    Peter Anderson;Avalon de Bruijn;Kathryn Angus;Ross Gordon

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Marie MacKintosh
Anne Marie MacKintosh University of Stirling
Crawford Moodie
Crawford Moodie University of Stirling
Martine Stead
Martine Stead University of Stirling
Ron Borland
Ron Borland University of Melbourne
Geoffrey T. Fong
Geoffrey T. Fong University of Waterloo
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Fiona Harris
Fiona Harris University of the West of Scotland
Ann McNeill
Ann McNeill University of Adelaide
David Hammond
David Hammond University of Waterloo
Andrew Hyland
Andrew Hyland Roswell Park Cancer Institute

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