Corporate power and the international trade regime preventing progressive policy action on non-communicable diseases: a realist review.

ABSTRACT: Transnational tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food corporations use the international trade regime to prevent policy action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs); i.e. to promote policy 'non-decisions'. Understanding policy non-decisions can be assisted by identifying power operating in relevant decision-making spaces, but trade and health research rarely explicitly engages with theories of power. This realist review aimed to synthesize evidence of different forms and mechanisms of power active in trade and health decision-making spaces to understand better why NCD policy non-decisions persist and the implications for future transformative action. We iteratively developed power-based theories explaining how transnational health-harmful commodity corporations (THCCs) utilize the internat

SUBMITTER: Milsom P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8128013 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature