In this article, the authors address the view that the Reno model is not compatible with a public health model to gambling. The authors outline four main principles of a public health model, and discuss how the Reno model is consistent with those principles. They claim that a public health model provides a strategic framework with long-term goals and objectives, while the Reno model focuses on tactics to achieve those goals and objectives. The authors conclude that it is more fruitful to see the pubic health and Reno models as being complementary. Each contributes to the common aim of preventing and reducing gambling-related harms in its own ways.
