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Research Metrics for Health Science Schools: A Conceptual Exploration and Proposal
Research is a critical component of the public health enterprise, and a key component of universities and schools of public health and medicine. To satisfy varying levels of stakeholders in the field of public health research, accurately measuring the ...
Nigussie Gemechu +3 more
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Taking on the Corporate Determinants of Ill-health and Health Inequity: A Scoping Review of Actions to Address Excessive Corporate Power to Protect and Promote the Public’s Health [PDF]
Background In many sectors of the economy, for-profit business corporations hold excessive power relative to some governments and civil society. These power imbalances have been recognised as important contributors to many pressing and complex societal ...
Benjamin Wood +2 more
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The commercial determinants of health [PDF]
The commercial determinants of health are, broadly speaking, those activities of the private sector that affect the health of populations. These can be direct, such as the marketing of unhealthy products, or more distal, like industry lobbying against emissions regulations, or duty increases, donating to political campaigns, funding unreliable or ...
Kickbusch, I, Allen, L, Franz, C
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Background Manufacturers of harmful products engage in misinformation tactics long employed by the tobacco industry to emphasize uncertainty about scientific evidence and deflect negative attention from their products.
N. Maani +4 more
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Addressing cancer prevention and control in Armenia: tobacco control and mHealth as key strategies
This paper focuses on the particular challenges in cancer prevention and control (CPC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In particular, this paper extrapolates challenges and opportunities in Armenia, which has the 2nd highest rate of cancer ...
Carla J. Berg +4 more
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Can health impact assessment help tackle commercial determinants of health and support a wellbeing economy? [PDF]
Liz Green, Timo Clemens, Lukas Bunse
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Recognising the elephant in the room: the commercial determinants of health. [PDF]
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Introduction Share buybacks, when a corporation buys back its own shares, are recognised as having potentially harmful impacts on society. This includes by contributing to economic inequalities, and by impeding investments with the potential to protect ...
Benjamin Wood, Gary Sacks
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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of premature mortality worldwide. Corporate interests are sometimes well-aligned with public health, but profiteering from the consumption of products that are known to be the major contributors to ...
Téa E. Collins +6 more
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Toxic Legacies and Health Inequalities of the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Margins
Based on research in Matamoros (Mexico) and Naples (Italy), this article critically deconstructs embodiments and social histories of toxicity, addressing uneven power relations and health inequalities generated through late capitalism of the Anthropocene.
Melania Calestani
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