Case studies on corporations and global health governance :

Case studies on corporations and global health governance : impacts, influence and accountability / edited by Nora Kenworthy, Ross MacKenzie and Kelly Lee. - xvii, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Governing through production : a public-private partnership's impacts and dissolution in Lesotho's garment industry / Nora J. Kenworthy -- Medicalisation and commodification of smoking cessation : the role of industry actors in shaping health policy / Ross MacKenzie and Benjamin Hawkins -- The influence of the food industry on public health governance : insights from Mexico and the United States / Courtney Scott, Angela Carriedo and Cécile Knai -- Examples of failures to regulate mining and smelting emissions and their consequent effects on human health outcomes / Mark Patrick Taylor and Steven George -- Informal channels of corporate influence on global health policymaking : a mapping of strategies across four industries / Eliza Suzuki and Suerie Moon -- How corporations shape our understanding of problems with gambling and their solutions / Rebecca Cassidy -- Corporate manipulation of global health policy : a case study of asbestos / John Calvert -- The entrenchment of the public-private partnership paradigm in global health governance / Michael Stevenson -- Trade and investment agreements : the empowerment of pharmaceutical and tobacco corporations / Ashley Schram and Ronald Labonté -- Health policy, corporate influence and multi-level governance : the case of alcohol policy in the European Union / Chris Holden and Benjamin Hawkins -- Tobacco industry strategies to influence global tobacco governance in three Asian countries / Ross MacKenzie and Kelley Lee -- A proposed approach to systematically identify and monitor the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health using publicly available information / Melissa Mialon, Boyd Swinburn and Gary Sacks -- Regulating baby food marketing : civil society vs private sector influence / Tracey Wagner-Rizvi -- Communities, controversy and Chevron : epidemiology in the struggle over contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon / Ben Brisbois -- Citizens United, public health and democracy : the Supreme Court ruling, its implications and proposed action / William H. Wiist.

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World health--Case studies.
Social responsibility of business--Case studies.
Public health--Case studies.
Corporate governance--Case studies.
Corporations--Moral and ethical aspects --Case studies.
Consumer protection--Case studies.
Global health.


Case studies.

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