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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wiist, William H
• McKee, Martin
• Stuckler, David

Titel

MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CORPORATIONS AS DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH/MCKEE AND STUCKLER RESPOND

Ist Teil von

• American journal of public health (1971), 2019-02, Vol.109 (2), p.E1-E2

Ort / Verlag

Washington: American Public Health Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During that time, a conceptual viewpoint that consolidated the numerous means of corporate influence into a "playbook" used by the tobacco and food industries2 was proposed and expanded3 to include the tactics that underlie (by enabling, facilitating, or allowing) essentially all corporate practices and products that affect health and policy and global governance.4 The elements of the playbook were identified within the historical rights given to corporations5 and now have been conceptualized as four mechanisms that underlie all elements of the playbook6: (1) corporate election campaign donations,5 including those by their wealthy owners, officers, stockholders, and foundations,7 to candidates for elected office; (2) lobbying government officials; (3) the revolving door between government agencies and corporations; and (4) intentional corporate tax avoidance strategies7 (which may follow from number 1 or 2) that divert funding from societal needs such as public health. By contrast to academic sociology and political science and policy institutes, few public health researchers conduct research on the four mechanisms (except lobbying) that underlie corporate influence.6 Many not-for-profit advocacy organizations focus on the four mechanisms, but few public health professionals appear to do so. [...]even though we agree that they are important, we chose to focus further upstream on the causal chain by which corporations affect public health policy. [...]we focused on those elements of power that are less directly observable than, for example, Wiist's emphasis on corporate election campaign donations.