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Wheeler, Benedict A., Rigby, Jan and Huriwai, Terry (2006) Pokies and poverty: problem gambling risk factor geography in New Zealand. Health and Place, 12 (1). pp. 86-96. ISSN 1353-8292
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Abstract
Up to 2% of adults in New Zealand can be considered problem gamblers, where the activity has an impact on the well-being of those who gamble, and often their close associates. The most common activity involves non-casino gaming machines (NCGMs). This paper explores the geography of gambling ‘opportunity’ at small-area scales, and finds excess provision in those areas classified as highly deprived. Geographically weighted regression has been used to investigate the possibility that the degree of inequity in NCGM provision varies across New Zealand. As machines are licensed, this provides an opportunity for policy implementation towards risk reduction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Gambling; Addiction; Deprivation; Ethnicity; Policy; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: | 12217 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2004.10.011 |
| Depositing User: | Jan Rigby |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2020 16:53 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Health and Place |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/12217 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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