Characteristics of commercial determinants of health research on corporate activities: A scoping review.

Autor: Burgess RC; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America., Nyhan K; Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America., Dharia N; Bachelor of Health Sciences Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada., Freudenberg N; Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, New York City, New York, United States of America., Ransome Y; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Apr 26; Vol. 19 (4), pp. e0300699. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 26 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300699
Abstrakt: Introduction: Business practices have influenced human health for centuries, yet an overarching concept to study these activities across nations, time periods, and industries (called 'the commercial determinants of health' (CDH)) has emerged only recently. The purpose of this review was to assess the descriptive characteristics of CDH research and to identify remaining research gaps.
Methods: We systematically searched four databases (Scopus, OVID Medline, Ovid Embase, and Ovid Global Health) on Sept 13, 2022 for literature using CDH terms that described corporate activities that have the potential to influence population health and/or health equity (n = 116). We evaluated the following characteristics of the literature: methods employed, industries studied, regions investigated, funders, reported conflicts of interest, and publication in open-access formats.
Results: The characteristics of the articles included that many were conceptual (50/116 articles; 43%) or used qualitative methods (37; 32%). Only eight articles (7%) used quantitative or mixed methods. The articles most often discussed corporate activities in relation to the food and beverage (51/116; 44%), tobacco (20; 17%), and alcohol industries (19; 16%), with limited research on activities occurring in other industries. Most articles (42/58 articles reporting a regional focus; 72%) focused on corporate activities occurring in high-income regions of the world.
Conclusions: Our findings indicate that literature that has used CDH terms and described corporate practices that influence human health has primarily focused on three major industries in higher-income regions of the world. Qualitative methods were the most common empirical method for investigating these activities. CDH-focused investigations of corporate practices conducted by less-studied industries (e.g., social media) and in lower-income regions are recommended. Longitudinal quantitative studies assessing the associations between corporate practices and a range of health outcomes is also a necessary next step for this field.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Burgess et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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