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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798795503321

Autore

Kenworthy Nora

Titolo

Case studies on corporations and global health governance : impacts, influence and accountability / / Nora Kenworthy, Ross MacKenzie and Kelley Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-78348-357-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

362.1068

Soggetti

Globalization - Health aspects

Public health laws, International

Corporations - Health aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter Thirteen: A Proposed Approach to Systematically Identify and Monitor the Corporate Political Activity of the Food Industry with Respect to Public Health Using Publicly Available InformationChapter Fourteen: Regulating Baby Food Marketing: Civil Society versus Private Sector Influence; Chapter Fifteen: Epidemiology in the Struggle over Contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon; Chapter Sixteen: Citizens United, Public Health and Democracy; Chapter Seventeen: Conclusion; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of case studies providing interdisciplinary empirical analysis of the impact of corporations on global health and global health governance across a broad range of industrial sectors and issue areas.