Corporate Political Activity: Taxonomies and Model of Corporate Influence on Public Policy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill 41 million people a year. The products and services of unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) such as tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods and beverages and gambling are responsible for much of this health burden. While effective public health policies are available to address this, UCIs have consistently sought to stop governments and global organisations adopting such policies through what is known as corporate political activity (CPA). We aimed to contribute to the study of CPA and development of effective counter-measures by formulating a model and evidence-informed taxonomies of UCI political activity.

Methods

We used five complementary methods: critical interpretive synthesis of the conceptual CPA literature; brief int

SUBMITTER: Ulucanlar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10462073 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature