Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes.
Health Promot Int
; 39(1)2024 Feb 01.
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ABSTRACT
Agnogenic practices-designed to create ignorance or doubt-are well-established strategies employed by health-harming industries (HHI). However, little is known about their use by industry-funded organizations delivering youth education programmes. We applied a previously published framework of corporate agnogenic practices to analyse how these organizations used them in three UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes. Evidential strategies adopted previously by other HHI are prominent in the programmes' practitioner-facing materials, evaluation design and reporting and in public statements about the programmes. We show how agnogenic practices are employed to portray these youth education programmes as 'evidence-based' and 'evaluation-led'. These practices distort the already limited evidence on these educational initiatives while legitimizing industry-favourable policies, which prioritize commercial interests over public health. Given the similarities in political strategies adopted by different industries, these findings are relevant to research and policy on other HHI.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Jogo de Azar
Limite:
Adolescent
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Promot Int
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
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Reino Unido