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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]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 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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Firearm violence: a neglected “Global Health” issue
Globalization and Health, 2021 Populations around the world are facing an increasing burden of firearm violence on mortality and disability. While firearm violence affects every country globally, the burden is significantly higher in many low- and middle-income countries.
Meghan Werbick +3 more
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Research Metrics for Health Science Schools: A Conceptual Exploration and Proposal
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2022 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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The commercial determinants of health [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2016 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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SSM: Population Health, 2022 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
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 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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Trust, but Verify; Comment on “‘Part of the Solution’: Food Corporation Strategies for Regulatory Capture and Legitimacy” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 According to Lacy-Nichols and Williams, the food industry is increasingly forestalling regulation with incremental concessions and co-option of policy-making discourses and processes; bolstering their legitimacy via partnerships with credible ...
Luke N. Allen
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Globalization and Health, 2023 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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Annals of Global Health, 2023 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
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2023 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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