Full Description
An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health
Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions, and even our discourse and understanding around key health and social issues.
Until recently, commercial determinants have remained largely absent from our conceptual understanding of the drivers of health. The scale of their potential impact necessitates a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, but no book has yet explored the commercial impacts on health in their totality.
This pioneering volume sheds light on how commercial determinants shape health directly and indirectly through influencing policy, evidence, and discourse. Featuring original cross-sector research, The Commercial Determinants of Health draws on insights from a wide-ranging group of experts who introduce the commercial determinants of health and describe the proximal and distal pathways through which they affect population health. Each chapter further illustrates the health impact of commercial actors, including through multidisciplinary case studies ranging from tobacco to fossil fuels. Together, these essays seek to integrate new and emerging research across public health, economics, and policy to enrich our understanding and responses to the commercial determinants of health.
Contents
Section 1: Why Commercial Determinants?
Chapter 1: Commercial Determinants of Health: An Introduction
Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, and Sandro Galea
Chapter 2: A Systems Perspective on the Pathways of Influence between CDOH and Health
Cécile Knai and Natalie Savona
Chapter 3: Global Health and Equity Burden of Commercial Determinants of Health
Julia Anaf, Fran Baum, and Matt Fisher
Section 2: How Do Commercial Determinants Shape Upstream Drivers of Health?
Chapter 4: The Role of Policy in Studying the Commercial Determinants of Health
Benjamin Hawkins
Chapter 5: Understanding the Politics of the Commercial Determinants of Health
Eduardo J. Gómez
Chapter 6: The Role of Commercial Influences in Public Understanding of Harms, Causes and Solutions
Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani, and May van Schalkwyk
Chapter 7: The Role of Corporations in Influencing Culture
Nancy Tomes
Chapter 8: Industry Influence on Science: What Is Happening and What Can Be Done
Alice Fabbri and Anna Gilmore
Chapter 9: Role in Trade Deals and Investment
Pepita Barlow and Eric Crosbie
Section 3: Case Studies by Industry
Chapter 10: Hidden from View: Alcohol Industry Efforts to Keep the Epidemic of Alcohol-Related Harm from Public Awareness
Tim Stockwell and Erin Hobin
Chapter 11: Learning from 70 Years of Tobacco Control: Winning the War and Not Just the Battles
Anna B. Gilmore and Sarah Dance
Chapter 12: The Fossil Fuel Industry: Fuelling Doubt and Navigating Contradiction
May van Schalkwyk, Nason Maani, and Mark Petticrew
Chapter 13: The Gambling Industry: Harmful Products, Predatory Practices and the Politics of Knowledge
May van Schalkwyk and Rebecca Cassidy
Chapter 14: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Eric Crosbie, Laura Schmidt, Jim Krieger, and Marion Nestle
Section 4: Cross-Industry Mechanisms
Chapter 15: Marketing
Simone Pettigrew and Alexandra Jones
Chapter 16: Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present, and Future
Nino Paichadze, Vinu Ilakkuvan, Muluken Gizaw, and Adnan A. Hyder
Chapter 17: The Institutionalization of Corporate Power within Policy
Gary Fooks
Chapter 18: Corporations as Irresponsible Artificial People: Human Rights, Profits, and Public Health
George J. Annas
Chapter 19: Industry Influence on Research: A Cycle of Bias
Lisa Bero
Chapter 20: The Global Technology Sector as a Commercial Determinant of Health
Nora Kenworthy, Katerini Tagmatarchi Storeng, and Marco Zenone
Section 5: Advancing Science and Scholarship
Chapter 21: Defining the Commercial Determinants of Health
Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Cassandra de Lacy-Vawdon, and Rob Moodie
Chapter 22: Assessing Power Structures
Joana Madureira Lima
Chapter 23: Rethinking Conflict of Interest: From Individual to Structural Understandings
Jeff Collin, Rob Ralston, and Sarah Hill
Chapter 24: Assessing the Health Impacts of the Commercial Determinants of Health
Luke N. Allen
Chapter 25: Assessing the Economic Impacts of Corporations
Martin McKee
Chapter 26: Prioritizing Research on the Foundational Drivers of Corporate Policy Influence
William H. Wiist
Chapter 27: The Influence of Commercial Industries on Public Discourse
Shona Hilton
Chapter 28: Commercial Determinants of Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Salma M. Abdalla, Leona Ofei, Nason Maani, and Sandro Galea
Section 6: A Way Forward
Chapter 29: The Question of Industry Partnerships
Peter J. Adams
Chapter 30: Understanding and Managing Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Katherine Cullerton and Martin White
Chapter 31: Teaching the Commercial Determinants of Health
Nicholas Freudenberg and Eric Crosbie
Chapter 32: Learning from Experience: Identifying Key Intervention Points around Corporate Practices to Improve Health
Mélissa Mialon, Julia Anaf, and Fran Baum
Chapter 33: A Policy Agenda for the Commercial Determinants of Health
Sally Casswell
Chapter 34: Commercial Determinants of Health: A Research and Translational Agenda
Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, and Sandro Galea
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