ReviewBMJ global health2020
Intersectoral policy on industries that produce unhealthy commodities: governing in a new era of the global economy?
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- Tobacco policy (in)coherence in Mozambique: an examination of national and subnational stakeholder perspectives.Health policy and planning · 2024Article
- Building a Systems Map: Applying Systems Thinking to Unhealthy Commodity Industry Influence on Public Health Policy.International journal of health policy and management · 2024Article
- Addressing tobacco industry influence in tobacco-growing countries.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Article
- Hosting the Tobacco Industry Supply Chain and Political Interference.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- The challenges in protecting public health interests in multisectoral governance in the context of small island developing states: the case of tobacco control in Fiji and Vanuatu.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Framing policy objectives in the sustainable development goals: hierarchy, balance, or transformation?Globalization and health · 2023Review
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- Exploring the Political Economy Nexus of Tobacco Production and Control: A Case Study from Zambia.Critical public health · 2023Article
- Power and Other Commercial Determinants of Health: An Empirical Study of the Australian Food, Alcohol, and Gambling Industries.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
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- Corporate Political Activity: Taxonomies and Model of Corporate Influence on Public Policy.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
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- Advancing whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control: Article 5.3 and the challenge of policy coordination in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda.Tobacco control · 2022Article
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Abstract
Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy foods are key contributors to non-communicable diseases globally. Public health advocates have been proactive in recent years, developing systems to monitor and mitigate both health harms and influence by these industries. However, establishing and implementating strong government regulation of these unhealthy product-producing industries remains challenging. The relevant regulatory instruments lie not only with ministries of health but with agriculture, finance, industry and trade, largely driven by economic concerns. These policy sectors are often unreceptive to public health imperatives for restrictions on industry, including policies regarding labelling, marketing and excise taxes. Heavily influenced by traditional economic paradigms, they have been more receptive to industry calls for (unfettered) market competition, the rights of consumers to choose and the need for government to allow industry free rein; at most to establish voluntary standards of consumer protection, and certainly not to directly regulate industry products and practices. In recent years, the status quo of a narrow economic rationality that places economic growth above health, environment or other social goals is being re-evaluated by some governments and key international economic agencies, leading to windows of opportunity with the potential to transform how governments approach food, tobacco and alcohol as major, industry-driven risk factors. To take advantage of this window of opportunity, the public health community must work with different sectors of government to(1) reimagine policy mandates, drawing on whole-of-government imperatives for sustainable development, and (2) closely examine the institutional structures and governance processes, in order to create points of leverage for economic policies that also support improved health outcomes.
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