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What Public Health Practitioners Need to Know About Unhealthy Industry Tactics

Year: 2017

Type: editorial

Abstract: The article discusses what the author refers to as the information that public health practitioners need to know regarding unhealthy industry tactics which include attacks aimed at legitimate science and scientists. Junk science and the creation of arms-length front groups, organizations, and research institutes that create their own scientific studies are examined, as well as manufactured controversies, political agenda influencing, and the funding of disinformation campaigns.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2017.303861

Author: A. Rob Moodie

Institutions: University of Malawi, The University of Melbourne

Language: English

Topic: Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2621753080

Cites: 1

Cited by: 48

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