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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sonu Goel, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Madhur Verma, Parthibane Sivanantham, Bijay Nanda Naik, Deepti Gupta
Summary: The study reveals the existence of Tobacco Industry Interference in India, with key stakeholders acting at various hierarchical levels. The research findings indicate that interference from the tobacco industry manifests in multiple domains such as policy-making, law enforcement, and advertising promotion, highlighting the importance of transparency in official interactions with the tobacco industry.
Article
Substance Abuse
Md Hasan Shahriar, Md Mehedi Hasan, Md Shahedul Alam, Britta K. Matthes, Anna B. Gilmore, A. B. M. Zubair
Summary: This study examines how the tobacco industry undermined the development and implementation of graphic health warnings on tobacco packs in Bangladesh. Cigarette companies actively opposed the warnings and used lobbying and economic arguments to delay their implementation. Despite some resistance, tobacco control advocates achieved partial success in countering the industry influence.
Article
Substance Abuse
Selamawit Hirpa, Rob Ralston, Wakgari Deressa, Jeff Collin
Summary: This paper explores the implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Ethiopia, highlighting the challenges in operationalising key requirements such as minimising policy engagement with the tobacco industry. The study found varying levels of awareness of Article 5.3 across government sectors, with limited understanding and gaps in implementation exacerbated by assumptions and practices around stakeholder consultation. The results also underscore the ongoing close relationship between the Ethiopian government and tobacco monopoly, despite recent achievements in tobacco control legislation.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Amit Yadav, Stanton A. Glantz
Summary: Bans on tobacco advertising are crucial for reducing tobacco-related diseases, but the tobacco industry has been employing global strategies to delay legislation in India and evade efforts to control tobacco globally. Understanding these strategies can aid public health efforts to counter industry interference.
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
(2022)
Article
Substance Abuse
Praveen Kumar, Rachel Ann Barry, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, Veena Ganesh Kamath, Rob Ralston, Jeff Collin
Summary: This study explores the challenges of implementing Article 5.3 within India's multilevel systems and reveals low levels of awareness and competing agendas among stakeholders. The implementation of Article 5.3 is further hindered by national requirements for engagement with the tobacco industry.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Paraminder Dhillon
Summary: Literature reviews are valuable resources for the scientific community, providing in-depth understanding of a field and helping to identify key gaps and challenges for future research. Writing review articles is essential for expanding knowledge and developing analytical and communication skills.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Alhassan Ibrahim, Katharine Bartsch, Ehsan Sharifi
Summary: Despite the environmental challenges associated with stormwater management in Ghanaian cities, adopting green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) has the potential to overcome barriers and improve stormwater management. This article proposes a good green governance framework to facilitate GSI implementation and envisions active inclusion and collaboration between diverse actors.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eleanor K. Chestnut, Marianna Y. Zhang, Ellen M. Markman
Summary: Research suggests that using subject-complement statements to express gender equality may reinforce or even teach children gender stereotypes. Both adults and children in the experiments tended to believe that the gender in the complement position had more natural ability than the gender in the subject position.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Substance Abuse
S. M. Abdullah, Tracey Wagner-Rizvi, Rumana Huque, Sushama Kanan, Samina Huque, Rob Ralston, Jeff Collin
Summary: This article examines the barriers to minimizing industry interference in tobacco control policy implementation in Bangladesh. The findings suggest that both individual and institutional conflicts of interest hinder progress, and that the perceived interests of political actors and the institutional position of the National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) shape policy development. The initiatives taken by the NTCC to implement Article 5.3 are seen as an important opportunity to address conflicts of interest and achieve the smoke-free goal by 2040.
Review
Development Studies
Abu Alrob Haifa, Ouazzani Touhami Zineb, Qannam Ziad
Summary: This study adopts a historical approach to examine the history, causes, and important characteristics of good governance and its interrelationship with sustainable development in Palestine. The findings reveal the urgent need for good governance in Palestinian society due to Israeli occupation, corruption, and dependence on foreign aid. The study also highlights the significant efforts made by Palestinians in promoting good governance, such as signing anti-corruption conventions and establishing oversight bodies. The results suggest that prioritizing good governance in Palestine can lead to improved quality of life, stronger relationships with donor countries, better investment environment, access to international aid, and empowerment of marginalized groups.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, Nelly I. Kadagi, Dyhia Belhabib, Edward H. Allison
Summary: The African Union prioritizes the sustainable use of fisheries resources in developing the Blue Economy. However, the current fisheries governance mechanisms in Africa tend to constrain small-scale fisheries while failing to regulate the industrial fisheries sector, leading to the marginalization of small-scale fisheries. Despite higher incidences of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing in industrial fisheries, governance mechanisms continue to favor the industrial sector over small-scale fisheries.
Article
Substance Abuse
Rachel Ann Barry, S. M. Abdullah, Aastha Chugh, Selamawit Hirpa, Praveen Kumar, Denis Male, Rob Ralston, Tracey Wagner-Rizvi, Jeff Collin
Summary: This study analyzes the whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Uganda, and identifies barriers and opportunities for coordination. The findings indicate the common challenges in achieving coordination across different contexts, as well as the potential for cross-sector and cross-government collaboration.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Britta K. Matthes, Praveen Kumar, Sarah Dance, Tom Hird, Angela Carriedo Lutzenkirchen, Anna B. Gilmore
Summary: This scoping review aims to summarize the peer-reviewed literature on civil society's counteractions to tobacco industry interference (TII) and assess their effectiveness. The study found that civil society employs various strategies, such as exposing industry conduct, accessing decision-makers, generating and using evidence, filing complaints or taking legal action, and mobilizing coalitions and supporters, to counter TII. However, the impact of these counteractions remains largely understudied.
GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Yu Wang, Zongshuan Duan, Sherry L. Emery, Scott R. Weaver, Shannon R. Self-Brown, David L. Ashley, Jidong Huang
Summary: Significant differences were found in the associations between exposure to the Tips From Former Smokers campaign and quit intentions or attempts between sexual minority and heterosexual smokers. Heterosexual smokers showed stronger reactions to the campaign, with higher odds of quit intentions and attempts, while sexual minority smokers had weaker associations with the campaign.
Review
Substance Abuse
Zaineb Danish Sheikh, J. Robert Branston, Anna B. Gilmore
Summary: This systematic review explores the tobacco industry's responses to tobacco excise tax policies and finds that the industry employs various pricing strategies to undermine tax policies and maximize profits, with variations in strategies observed across different countries.
Editorial Material
Health Care Sciences & Services
Gary Jonas Fooks, Charlotte Godziewski
Summary: This commentary further expands on the study of the food and beverage industry's opposition to the decision-making tool, providing a deep analysis of corporate power and exploring the challenges in managing industry influence in nutrition policy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Review
Substance Abuse
Zaineb Danish Sheikh, J. Robert Branston, Anna B. Gilmore
Summary: This systematic review explores the tobacco industry's responses to tobacco excise tax policies and finds that the industry employs various pricing strategies to undermine tax policies and maximize profits, with variations in strategies observed across different countries.
Article
Substance Abuse
Mateusz Zygmunt Zatonski, Catherine O. Egbe, Lindsay Robertson, Anna Gilmore
Summary: This study examines the public debate in South African print media on the potential effects of tobacco control legislation and tobacco tax regulations, using the concept of framing. Seven overarching frames were identified, with the dominant frames being Economic, Harm reduction and vaping, and Health. The dominance of economic arguments opposing tobacco control legislation, promoted by various organizations including the tobacco industry, poses a risk to tobacco control progress.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Michelle Kelly-Irving, William Patrick Ball, Clare Bambra, Cyrille Delpierre, Ruth Dundas, Julia Lynch, Gerry McCartney, Katherine Smith
Summary: Persistent health inequalities pose challenges to researchers and policymakers. This paper highlights the tensions in the field of health inequalities research and discusses potential solutions. By analyzing evidence and debating key issues, it provides insights into causality, welfare systems, and policies addressing health inequalities.
CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Sophie Braznell, J. Robert Branston, Anna B. Gilmore
Summary: This study analyzed the information and claims on the relative risks of IQOS made directly to potential consumers through the live webchat service on the IQOS website. The results showed that a variety of claims were used to indicate that IQOS is safer than cigarettes in successful webchat conversations in multiple countries.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kathrin Lauber, Holly Rippin, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Anna B. Gilmore
Summary: The study found that transnational sugar-sweetened beverage producers and their business associations are the most active opponents of SSB taxation. The industry claims that the policy would have negative economic effects were identified as the most common and powerful arguments. Direct lobbying was reported in all study countries.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Substance Abuse
Britta Katharina Matthes, Alice Fabbri, Sarah Dance, Louis Laurence, Karin Silver, Anna B. Gilmore
Summary: A study found that British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris International (PMI) participated in 213 scientific events, covering various fields, mainly in Europe and North America. They disseminated information through posters and presentations. This highlights the importance of rejecting tobacco industry involvement in scientific events.
Article
Political Science
Clementine Hill O'Connor, Katherine Smith, Ceri Hughes, Petra Meier, Robin Purshouse
Summary: Advocates of inclusive growth believe that it offers a way to combine economic success and social inclusivity, making it highly appealing in various contexts. Through studying three UK policy organizations, we argue that inclusive growth is a flexible concept that can obscure unresolved tensions. While this flexibility helps build alliances, it also makes operationalizing inclusive growth difficult in governance settings that prioritize metrics.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Anna B. Gilmore, Alice Fabbri, Fran Baum, Adam Bertscher, Krista Bondy, Ha-Joon Chang, Sandro Demaio, Agnes Erzse, Nicholas Freudenberg, Sharon Friel, Karen J. Hofman, Paula Johns, Safura Abdool Karim, Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Camila Maranha Paes de Carvalho, Robert Marten, Martin McKee, Mark Petticrew, Lindsay Robertson, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Anne Marie Thow
Summary: Although commercial entities can have positive impacts on health and society, evidence shows that some commercial actors, especially the largest transnational corporations, are responsible for escalating rates of avoidable ill health, planetary damage, and social and health inequity. The paper highlights the shift towards market fundamentalism and the power of transnational corporations, which enable commercial actors to cause harm and externalize the costs. This power imbalance leads to policy inertia and escalating health harms, while governments must take action to protect future generations and promote development and economic growth.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sharon Friel, Jeff Collin, Mike Daube, Anneliese Depoux, Nicholas Freudenberg, Anna B. Gilmore, Paula Johns, Amos Laar, Robert Marten, Martin McKee, Melissa Mialon
Summary: This paper discusses the future role of the commercial sector in global health and health equity. It does not propose the overthrow of capitalism or full support for corporate partnerships. There is no single solution to eliminate the harms caused by commercial determinants of health, but evidence suggests that progressive economic models, international frameworks, government regulation, compliance mechanisms, and strategic civil society mobilisation can collectively bring about systemic, transformative change to reduce these harms and promote human and planetary wellbeing. The question is not whether the world has the resources or will to act, but whether humanity can survive without making these efforts.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Sulakshana Nandi, Melissa Mialon, Jim McCambridge, Kelley Lee, Alexandra Jones, Anna B. Gilmore, Sandro Galea, Cassandra de Lacy-Vawdon, Camila Maranha Paes de Carvalho, Fran Baum, Rob Moodie
Summary: Most public health research on the commercial determinants of health to date has focused on a narrow segment of commercial actors, primarily the transnational corporations producing tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed foods. However, there is a lack of clear frameworks for differentiating among commercial entities, hindering the governance of commercial interests in public health. This paper aims to develop a framework that enables meaningful distinctions among diverse commercial entities, allowing for a fuller consideration of their impact on health outcomes.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Arti Singh, Hana Ross, Fiona Dobbie, Allen Gallagher, Tarja Kinnunen, Divine Darlington Logo, Olivia A. Boateng, Anna Gilmore, Linda Bauld, Ellis Owusu-Dabo
Summary: This study aimed to measure the extent of illicit cigarette consumption from single stick sales, determine the nature and types of illicit cigarettes in Ghana, and identify factors associated with illicit cigarette consumption. The results showed that about 20% of the cigarette packs were illicit, with the majority originating from Togo, followed by Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. Factors such as convenience stores, border towns, pack price, and the northern zone were associated with higher odds of illicit cigarette sales.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nikita L. Poole, Barbara van Straaten, Floor A. van den Brand, Anna B. Gilmore, Marc C. Willemsen, Gera E. Nagelhout
Summary: This research analysed and compared newspaper coverage of three newly implemented tobacco control policies in the Netherlands. The majority of coverage was neutral, but plain packaging and the point-of-sale ban were portrayed more negatively when expressing a positive or negative tone. The tobacco industry appeared frequently in news articles, and arguments opposing the policies focused on negative economic consequences and questioning the need for policy.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Arti Singh, Katherine Smith, Mark Hellowell, Divine Darlington Logo, Robert Marten, Kaung Suu Lwin, Ellis Owusu-Dabo
Summary: Non-communicable diseases account for a large percentage of mortality in Ghana, with unhealthy commodities being a major contributing factor. Although health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages have gained attention, their adoption and implementation in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, are limited. This study aims to explore the contextual politics and examine the current perceptions of health taxes in Ghana.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Gillian Fergie, Caroline Vaczy, Katherine Smith, Mhairi Mackenzie, Thu Thuy Phan, Shona Hilton
Summary: It is increasingly recognized in the UK that public dialogue about the social determinants of health and addressing inequalities is crucial for effective policy action. This study engaged young people in online workshops to explore their views on health inequalities and potential solutions. The findings show their support for systemic change to reduce social inequalities and improve health outcomes.
HEALTH EXPECTATIONS
(2023)
