ArticleSystematic reviews2023
The Commercial Determinants of Health and Evidence Synthesis (CODES): methodological guidance for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Parents care needs with epileptic children: a hybrid model concept analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
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- Political prioritization of alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Uganda: Agenda dynamics amidst a shifting funding landscape.Globalization and health · 2026Article
- Reviewing ecosystems of evidence: synthesising the evidence on the commercial determinants of health from a complex systems perspective.Systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Conducting evidence synthesis and developing evidence-based advice in public health and beyond: A scoping review and map of methods guidance.Research synthesis methods · 2026Article
- Methods of Engaging Interest-Holders in Healthcare Evidence Syntheses: A Scoping Review.Cochrane evidence synthesis and methods · 2026Review
- Life's Essential 8 cardiovascular health status of 18-69-year-old individuals in France.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Article
- Alcohol marketing as a commercial determinant of health: daily diary insights from young women in Kampala.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Transforming trade for vaccine equity: Policy gaps and barriers.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Developing structures to support researchers studying health-harming industries.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Addressing the commercial determinants of mental health: an umbrella review of population-level interventions.Health promotion international · 2024Review
- Is the commercial determinants conversation confined to the health sciences? Potentially, and that's a problem.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Characteristics of commercial determinants of health research on corporate activities: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe field of the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) refers to the commercial products, pathways and practices that may affect health. The field is growing rapidly, as evidenced by the WHO programme on the economic and commercial determinants of health and a rise in researcher and funder interest. Systematic reviews (SRs) and evidence synthesis more generally will be crucial tools in the evolution of CDOH as a field. Such reviews can draw on existing methodological guidance, though there are areas where existing methods are likely to differ, and there is no overarching guidance on the conduct of CDOH-focussed systematic reviews, or guidance on the specific methodological and conceptual challenges. METHODS/
resultsCODES provides guidance on the conduct of systematic reviews focussed on CDOH, from shaping the review question with input from stakeholders, to disseminating the review. Existing guidance was used to identify key stages and to provide a structure for the guidance. The writing group included experience in systematic reviews and other forms of evidence synthesis, and in equity and CDOH research (both primary research and systematic reviews).
conclusionsThis guidance highlights the special methodological and other considerations for CDOH reviews, including equity considerations, and pointers to areas for future methodological and guideline development. It should contribute to the reliability and utility of CDOH reviews and help stimulate the production of reviews in this growing field.
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