Manufacturing Epidemics: The Role of Global Producers in Increased Consumption of Unhealthy Commodities Including Processed Foods, Alcohol, and Tobacco
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1 Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 South Asian Chronic Disease Network, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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