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The Manufacture of Lifestyle: The Role of Corporations in Unhealthy Living

Jan 25, 2012, By Nicholas Freudenberg, CHW Contributing Writer

What causes unhealthy lifestyles? In a new article now online at the Journal of Public Health Policy , I make the case that corporate business practices such as product design, marketing and retailing and corporate political practices such as lobbying, campaign contributions and sponsored research are fundamental causes of the of the lifestyles associated with the growing global burdens of non-communicable diseases and injuries. [More]

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A New Deal for Public Health in Britain: Whose Responsibility is the Health of the Public?

Jan 18, 2012, By Kimberly Libman, Healthy Public Policy Fellow, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College

The recently empowered coalition government in Britain has adopted a new and controversial approach to public health. In 2010, the secretary of state for health, Andrew Lansley, released a white paper declaring that “Responsibility Deals” would be used to promote health lifestyles and reduce the public health and financial impacts of...[More]

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2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice

Jan 11, 2012, By Michele Simon, CHW Contributing Writer

Cross-posted from Appetite for Profit. Instead of a potentially depressing year-in-review post, I decided to look ahead. (But do see Andy Bellatti’s amusing compilation of 2011 food news.) Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively...[More]

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Interview with Joel Bakan, Author of Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children

Jan 4, 2012, By Monica Gagnon, CHW Contributing Writer

Joel Bakan is Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he teaches and writes about constitutional law. He is author of the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power , (2004) and writer and co-creator of the documentary film, The Corporation . Last year, he published Childhood Under...[More]

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Appropriating Medicine and Public Health for Marketing Ill Health

Dec 21, 2011, By Nicholas Freudenberg, CHW Contributing Writer

In the last century, corporations have found new ways to appropriate medical authority to improve marketing of products that harm the health of the public. In a special section of the January 2012 issue of the American Journal of Public Health , researchers describe some of the ways that the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries have...[More]