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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2025

Demystifying Commercial Influences on Health: Applying Systems Dynamics Methodologies to Policy Processes Comment on "Using System Dynamics to Understand Transnational Corporate Power in Diet-Related Non-communicable Disease Prevention Policy-Making: A Case Study of South Africa".

Marsha Orgill, Lori Lake, Zakaria Belrhiti, Mumta Hargoven

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Marsha OrgillThe Children's Institute, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-3831-6249
Lori LakeThe Children's Institute, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-1039-3819
Zakaria BelrhitiInternational School Mohammed VI of Public Health, Mohammed VI University of Sciences and Health (UM6SS), Casablanca, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0002-0115-682X
Mumta HargovenGlobal Health Policy Unit, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

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Abstract

In their study on which we provide commentary, the authors applied a qualitative systems dynamics methodology to explore how transnational corporate power has led to policy inertia in the prevention of diet-related non-communicable disease (RD-NCD) in South Africa. This commentary explores the potential of systems thinking and causal loop diagrams to deepen understandings of - and responses to - the commercial determinants of health (CDOH). We reflect on the application of causal loop diagrams in policy processes and provide reflections that proposed strategies for change will need to take into account recent shifts in global discourse, funding streams and the balance of global power.

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CommerceDietHealth PolicyNoncommunicable DiseasesPolicy MakingHumansSouth AfricaComplexityCorporate PowerDiet-RelatedNon-communicable DiseaseSouth AfricaSystems Thinking

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PMCPMC12414143

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