The influence of corporate market power on health: exploring the structure-conduct-performance model from a public health perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The detrimental impact of dominant corporations active in health-harming commodity industries is well recognised. However, to date, existing analyses of the ways in which corporations influence health have paid limited attention to corporate market power. Accordingly, the public health implications of concentrated market structures, the use of anti-competitive market strategies, and the ways in which market power mediates the allocation and distribution of resources via market systems, remain relatively unexplored. To address this gap, this paper aimed to identify and explore key literature that could inform a comprehensive framework to examine corporate market power from a public health perspective. The ultra-processed food (UPF) industry was used to provide illustrativ

SUBMITTER: Wood B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8025506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature