Open AccessUrgently needed: voices for integrity in public policy making
Author(s) -
Swinburn Boyd,
Moore Michael
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/1753-6405.12331
Subject(s) - politics , public health , power (physics) , political science , public health policy , public policy , environmental health , public administration , political economy , sociology , health policy , law , medicine , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics
Society needs strong voices to promote public health and the integrity of policymaking processes. This is especially critical given the dominant paradigm of marketbased solutions and the increasing conversion by transnational corporations of their economic power into political power. Nicky Hager‘s recent book Dirty Politics exposed an apparent systemic approach being used by the tobacco, alcohol and processed food industries in New Zealand to attack prominent public health advocates.