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Dear colleagues,
Benjamin Ewert and I warmly invite paper proposals for our open panel “David against Goliath? National policies in public health fighting the influence of multinational companies<https://wc2020.ipsa.org/wc/panel/david-against-goliath-national-policies-public-health-fighting-influence-multinational>” at the IPSA World-Congress in Lisbon 2020 (26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, between 25 and 29 July 2020). The panel is part of the sessions RC 25 „Comparative Health Policy“.
The panel will explore national policies all over the world that (try to) challenge problems that are caused by people’s lifestyles and health-related behaviours to take our publication on „Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention“ (published at Palgrave<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319983158>).
Especially eating and drinking behaviour strongly influences people’s health (e.g. Marques et al 2019) – eating too much, too sweet, too fat and drinking too sugary or too much alcohol can contribute to obesity and also promote major non-communicable diseases like diabetes and coronary heart diseases but might also have an impact on cancer and chronic illnesses. In liberal market economies we expect a huge variety of choice options with regard to diet and also to other products of the daily life. We also expect policymakers to have qualms about intervening and regulating markets too strongly. On the one hand, we observe small steps or forms of soft regulation on national levels to promote public health (e.g. the debate on behavioural insights, for a broad overview see Straßheim and Beck 2019) despite a broad debate, globally and nationally, about the symptoms “bad” lifestyles (e.g. high obesity rates, rise of non-communicable diseases etc.), a more or less shared picture of the problem structure and much evidence in public health research about the causes and effects of specific lifestyles. On the other hand, there is also research about prolific strategies of multinational companies to avoid regulation and to preserve or even expand market shares for their products in a global scope (Greenhalgh 2019).
The open panel calls for contributions in the broader context of the following issues/questions:
- Cooperation and conflict between state authorities and multinational companies in food and health policy.
- Connection between public health research and strategies of multinational companies in the food and health sector.
- Policy coherences and incoherencies in the field of food and health policy on national levels.
- How does the framing of the problem structure affect the policies on national level and the way to treat multinational companies as stakeholders with regard to the specific issues?
- How do narratives and ideas influence policymaking and whose narratives and ideas are most influential when it comes to policymaking that targets on NCD-prevention?
Best wishes,
Benjamin and Kathrin
References
Ewert, Benjamin, and Kathrin Loer, eds. 2019, Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Palgrave Pivot. (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319983158)
Greenhalgh, Susan, 2019, Making China safe for Coke: how Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China. Bmj 364: k5050.
Marques, Adilson, et al. 2019, Few European Adults are Living a Healthy Lifestyle. American Journal of Health Promotion 33.3: 391-398.
Straßheim, Holger, and Silke Beck, eds. 2019, Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Dr. Kathrin Loer
Politikwissenschaft III: Politikfeldanalyse & Umweltpolitik
Projektleitung: IniVpol – Instrumente in der Verbraucherpolitik
FernUniversität in Hagen
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