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cord-254904-4eduslpb	Griffiths, S.	Pandemics and epidemics: public health and gambling harms	2020-07-22		.txt	text/plain	1768	91	59	To facilitate mature debate, we needed to help public health, primary care and healthcare professionals see that gambling is not necessarily a harmless pastime, and to understand that gambling harms contribute to many of the social and economic inequalities that are determinants of health and well-being for individuals, their families and the communities in which they live. What we did not discuss was how you present a special issue of Public Health on what some are coming to see as an epidemic of gambling-related harms, when the world is experiencing a global pandemic. If we are to have the sort of mature discussion around building the public health response to gambling harms, this is an important time to start. Competing interests P.M. reports serving as an advisor to the Scottish Chief Medical Officer and the Scottish Government on the public health response to gambling harms.	./cache/cord-254904-4eduslpb.txt	./txt/cord-254904-4eduslpb.txt