2024/09/29 by Anna Gilmore, Raouf Alebshehy, Stella Aguinaga Bialous · 1 voice · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · #Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology #Employment and Welfare Studies #Global Health Care Issues
paper · pdf · doi:10.34172/ijhpm.8621
openalex publication_date 2024/09/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
In the context of growing interest in the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) which has been defined as "the systems, practices, and pathways through which commercial actors drive health and equity," Bennett et al propose that governments implement monitoring of unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) (including tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed foods) as part of their routine public health surveillance. We explore the evidence underpinning that suggestion and provide details on how corporate monitoring might be practically implemented drawing on lessons from tobacco industry monitoring which has been an established part of tobacco control. While governments should actively support such an approach as part of efforts to address commercially driven health harms, we urge caution in governments undertaking monitoring and identify significant barriers to implementation, while also suggesting ways in which those barriers might be overcome.