A health professional's guide to the intersection of public health with intellectual property rights in trade and investment: the case of tobacco plain packaging
Autor: | Charlotte Tulinius, Caitlin Pley, Maarten Rutger van der Heijden |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Scrutiny International Cooperation Population Legislation Public Policy Intellectual property Tobacco industry Patents as Topic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Environmental health Tobacco medicine Product Packaging 030212 general & internal medicine education Health policy education.field_of_study 030505 public health Public economics Health Policy Public health Tobacco control Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Tobacco Products Intellectual Property Government Regulation Business Public Health 0305 other medical science |
Zdroj: | Journal of public health policy. 41(1) |
ISSN: | 1745-655X |
Popis: | Intellectual property law is a crucial determinant of global public health, capable of both endangering and facilitating advances in the health of populations. This Viewpoint explains the most important aspects of the interaction between intellectual property law and public health. We use the plain packaging of tobacco products to illustrate how public health policies may be subject to scrutiny under existing trade and investment law structures. Plain packaging of tobacco products is challenging to implement due to legal complexities and uncertainties surrounding the status of mandated plain packaging for consumer products. While the tobacco industry and its proponents once relied on the denial of scientific evidence to delay legislation and influence consumers, its tactics have shifted to the use of trade threats and investment disputes, directly challenging the sovereignty of governments to enact bona fide public health measures to improve the health of their population. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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