Framing a public health approach to gambling harms in Wales: Challenges and opportunities

Robert  Rogers; Heather  Wardle; Catherine A Sharp; Simon Dymond; Timothy J Davies; Karen  Hughes; Gaynor Astbury

Framing a public health approach to gambling harms in Wales: Challenges and opportunities

Robert Rogers, Heather Wardle, Catherine A Sharp, Simon Dymond, Timothy J Davies, Karen Hughes , Gaynor Astbury

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Recent years have seen substantial increases in the availability of gambling. In Great Britain, the gambling industry’s annual Gross Gambling Yield (GGY; that is, the difference between bets paid in and bets paid out) has increased to £14.4bn in 2017/18. This suggests that either more people are gambling or that those who do gamble are spending more money gambling than previously. These observations, along with rapid technological changes that now provide gambling products and services through online and mobile platforms to more sectors of the population, have heightened concerns about the numbers of people at-risk of experiencing gambling harms and associated social costs.

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Publisher	Bangor University
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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Gambling as a public health issue in Wales
Rogers, R., Wardle, H., Sharp, C. A., Wood, S., Hughes, K., Davies, T. J., Dymond, S. & Bellis, M., 1 Jan 2019, Public Health Wales & Bangor University . 36 p.
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