Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes.

May CI van Schalkwyk ORCID logo ; Benjamin Hawkins ; Mark Petticrew ORCID logo ; Nason Maani ORCID logo ; Amandine Garde ; Aaron Reeves ; Martin McKee ORCID logo ; (2024) Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes. Health promotion international, 39 (1). daad196-. ISSN 0957-4824 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daad196
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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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