Is the commercial determinants conversation confined to the health sciences? Potentially, and that's a problem.

ABSTRACT: The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are attracting increased interest and are of great importance when discussing how trade affects health. Through a citation analysis of recent foundational CDoH documents (a Lancet paper series and an Oxford University textbook), we find that fully 71% of all citations reference the health sciences. The health sciences may be well suited to documenting the specific pathways of how commercial (by)products and practices harm human health. However, to operationalize upstream solutions for mitigating these harms, our citation analysis suggests that the field can engage political scientists, economists, sociologists, the trade law and business, as well as advocates in civil society and journalism, more so than it currently does. With CDoH explicitly r

SUBMITTER: Hagenaars LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759639 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature