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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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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Toward Monitoring and Addressing the Commercial Determinants of Health: Where Can We Go From Here? [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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Recognising the elephant in the room: the commercial determinants of health. [PDF]
de Lacy-Vawdon C +2 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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Trust, but Verify; Comment on “‘Part of the Solution’: Food Corporation Strategies for Regulatory Capture and Legitimacy” [PDF]
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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