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Health Promot Int
December 2024
Universite Rennes, EHESP, CNRS, Inserm, Arènes-UMR 6051, RSMS (Recherche sur les Services et Management en Santé)-U 1309, Rennes, France.
Unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) engage in corporate political activity, using diverse practices, including intimidatory tactics, to thwart, delay and dilute regulations that threaten their businesses. While examples of such intimidation exist across multiple sectors, no attempt has been made to synthesize these. Furthermore, much of the literature focuses on intimidation of policy-makers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepending on the type of offence, the medico-legal examination of victims of violence for the purpose of collecting evidence in criminal proceedings requires prompt physical examination of the victim, the exact description and, wherever possible, photographic documentation of the injuries and their forensically correct interpretation. Examination, documentation and assessment have to meet minimum standards. In addition it must be ensured that the examiner or expert has an independent organisational, administrative and financial status.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article reports an investigation of the promotion of more than 500 products marketed by over 150 pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Great Britain, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In contrast to the promotional material provided to physicians in the United States and Great Britain, material presented to physicians in Third World countries was found to be marked by gross exaggeration of product effectiveness and minimized or completely omitted potential hazards. No substantial differences could be found between multinational and domestic companies, brand-name and generic firms, or companies based in capitalist nations and those in socialist or communist-bloc countries in terms of the adequacy and accuracy of their promotion.
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