TY - JOUR
T1 - Commercial determinants of health
T2 - future directions
AU - Friel, Sharon
AU - Collin, Jeff
AU - Daube, Mike
AU - Depoux, Anneliese
AU - Freudenberg, Nicholas
AU - Gilmore, Anna B.
AU - Johns, Paula
AU - Laar, Amos
AU - Marten, Robert
AU - McKee, Martin
AU - Mialon, Melissa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/4/8
Y1 - 2023/4/8
N2 - This paper is about the future role of the commercial sector in global health and health equity. The discussion is not about the overthrow of capitalism nor a full-throated embrace of corporate partnerships. No single solution can eradicate the harms from the commercial determinants of health—the business models, practices, and products of market actors that damage health equity and human and planetary health and wellbeing. But evidence shows that progressive economic models, international frameworks, government regulation, compliance mechanisms for commercial entities, regenerative business types and models that incorporate health, social, and environmental goals, and strategic civil society mobilisation together offer possibilities of systemic, transformative change, reduce those harms arising from commercial forces, and foster human and planetary wellbeing. In our view, the most basic public health question is not whether the world has the resources or will to take such actions, but whether humanity can survive if society fails to make this effort.
AB - This paper is about the future role of the commercial sector in global health and health equity. The discussion is not about the overthrow of capitalism nor a full-throated embrace of corporate partnerships. No single solution can eradicate the harms from the commercial determinants of health—the business models, practices, and products of market actors that damage health equity and human and planetary health and wellbeing. But evidence shows that progressive economic models, international frameworks, government regulation, compliance mechanisms for commercial entities, regenerative business types and models that incorporate health, social, and environmental goals, and strategic civil society mobilisation together offer possibilities of systemic, transformative change, reduce those harms arising from commercial forces, and foster human and planetary wellbeing. In our view, the most basic public health question is not whether the world has the resources or will to take such actions, but whether humanity can survive if society fails to make this effort.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00011-9
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00011-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36966784
AN - SCOPUS:85151554969
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 401
SP - 1229
EP - 1240
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 10383
ER -