The need for a conceptual understanding of the macro and meso commercial determinants of health inequalities.

Nason Maani, Jeff Collin, Sharon Friel, Anna B Gilmore, Jim McCambridge, Lindsay Robertson, Mark Petticrew

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Article in European journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

Reviewing ecosystems of evidence: synthesising the evidence on the commercial determinants of health from a complex systems perspective.Systematic reviews · 2026
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Mind the Gap: Exploring Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption using Nationally Representative Data from the 2019 and 2021 Health Survey for England.BMC public health · 2026
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Corporate activities that influence population health: a scoping review and qualitative synthesis to develop the HEALTH-CORP typology.Globalization and health · 2024
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The Commercial Determinants of Health and Evidence Synthesis (CODES): methodological guidance for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses.Systematic reviews · 2023
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7 authors.

Nason MaaniFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3398-0688

Jeff CollinSPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.

Sharon FrielSPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.

Anna B GilmoreSPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.

Jim McCambridgeDepartment of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.

Lindsay RobertsonSPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.

Mark PetticrewFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Funding

British Heart FoundationCancer Research UKChief Scientist OfficeDepartment of HealthMedical Research Council MR/S037519/1Wellcome Trust 200321/Z/15/Z

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Health Status DisparitiesSocial Determinants of HealthHumansSocioeconomic Factors

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PMID34137840

DOI10.1093/eurpub/ckab048

PMCPMC8505001

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