21 Jan 2022
Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes on connecting with the food system
21 Jan 2022
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21 Jan 2022
Ilona Kickbusch
Governing NCDs: Addressing the Commercial Determinants of Health
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
World Health Organization
Commercial determinants of health: advertising of alcohol and unhealthy foods during sporting events - WHO Bulletin
Tobacco, alcohol and foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar generate much of the global burden of noncommunicable diseases. We, therefore, need a better understanding of how these products are promoted.The promotion of tobacco products through sporting events has largely disappeared over the las...
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
Globalization and Health
Healthy people and healthy profits? - Buse, K. et al (2017)
“While recognizing that there are a range of determinants of NCDs, in this paper we are concerned with the risks inherent from consumption of, or exposure to, commercial products – such as ultra-processed foods and beverages, tobacco and alcohol." Read the full article here.
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
Journal of Public Health Policy
The impact of corporate practices on health - Freudenberg, N., & Galea, S. (2008)
“[…] systematic investigation of the impact of corporate decisions on health. […] primary interest is in corporate practices, defined as the business and political activities of corporations. These practices result from companies’ decisions about the production, pricing, distribution, and pr...
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
The Lancet
Profits and pandemics - Moodie, R. et al (2013)
“The term industrial epidemic has been used to describe health harms associated with various goods including tobacco, alcohol, vinyl chloride, asbestos, cars, and the food and drink industries. In industrial epidemics, the vectors of spread are not biological agents, but transnational corporations...
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
PLOS Medicine
Manufacturing Epidemics - Stuckler, D., McKee, M., Ebrahim, S., & Basu, S. (2012)
‘‘Unhealthy commodities’’—soft drinks and processed foods that are high in salt, fat, and sugar, as well as tobacco and alcohol—are leading risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).” Read the full article here.
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
Project Syndicate
The World Cup’s Sickening Message - Buse, K., & Hawkes, S. (2015)
“The main risk factors for developing these conditions – smoking tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption, being overweight, and insufficient physical exercise – reflect deeply ingrained unhealthy behaviors. Given that these are precisely the kind of behaviors that companies like the World Cup s...
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
United Nations
CDoH in the Report of the Secretary-General on the Progress on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
“The commercial determinants of health are the commercial conditions, actions and omissions that affect health. Commercial determinants arise in the context of the provision of goods or services for payment and include commercial activities, as well as the environment in which commerce takes place...
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
The Lancet
The commercial determinants of health - Kickbusch, I., Allen, L., & Franz, C. (2016)
Define CDoH as “strategies and approaches used by the private sector to promote products and choices that are detrimental to health” Read the full article here.
21 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022
United Nations
Resolution-fatigue syndrome: the contribution of health policy and systems research to the SDGs
Despite numerous and repeated UN General Assembly Resolutions and High Level Political Declarations related to health; notably Resolution A/RES/72/139 calling for a UN high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2019, A/RES/72/138 which proclaims 12 December as International UHC Day, Tu...
21 Jan 2022