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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2024

How Could We Establish Monitoring and Surveillance of Health-Harming Corporations and Can Governments Be Trusted to Do It? Comment on "National Public Health Surveillance of Corporations in Key Unhealthy Commodity Industries - A Scoping Review and Framework Synthesis".

Anna B Gilmore, Raouf Alebshehy, Stella Bialous

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Anna B GilmoreTobacco Control Research Group, Department for Health, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0281-1248
Raouf AlebshehyTobacco Control Research Group, Department for Health, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8575-2775
Stella BialousSchool of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6471-5457

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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Public Health SurveillanceTobacco IndustryCommerceFood IndustryGovernmentHumansPublic HealthReview Literature as TopicCommercial Determinants of HealthIndustry MonitoringSurveillanceUnhealthy Commodity Industry

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PMCPMC11549563

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