van Schalkwyk, May CI 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2210-2289, Hawkins, Benjamin, Petticrew, Mark, Maani, Nason ORCID: 0000-0002-3398-0688, Garde, Amandine ORCID: 0000-0002-5794-8762, Reeves, Aaron and McKee, Martin ORCID: 0000-0002-0121-9683
(2024)
Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes.
Health promotion international, 39 (1).
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Humans, Gambling, Public Health, Industry, Adolescent, United Kingdom |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2024 10:20 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2024 16:44 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/heapro/daad196 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177892 |
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