An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us-by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions, and even our discourse and understanding around key health and social issues. Until recently, commercial determinants have remained largely absent from our conceptual understanding of the drivers of health. The scale of their potential impact necessitates a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, but no book has yet explored the commercial impacts on health in their totality. This pioneering volume sheds light on how commercial determinants shape health directly and indirectly through influencing policy, evidence, and discourse. Featuring original cross-sector research, The Commercial Determinants of Health draws on insights from a wide-ranging group of experts who introduce the commercial determinants of health and describe the proximal and distal pathways through which they affect population health. Each chapter further illustrates the health impact of commercial actors, including through multidisciplinary case studies ranging from tobacco to fossil fuels. Together, these essays seek to integrate new and emerging research across public health, economics, and policy to enrich our understanding and responses to the commercial determinants of health.

About the Author
Nason Maani holds a Lectureship in Inequalities and Global Health Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the structural and commercial drivers of health inequalities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously was Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a member of the UK PRP SPECTRUM Consortium and co-founded the Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM. He was a 2019-2020 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice. Mark Petticrew is Professor of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit. His research has a focus on the commercial determinants of health and in particular, the influence of unhealthy commodity industries on health. He is a member of the UK PRP SPECTRUM Consortium which conducts research on the commercial determinants of health and other topics. His other research has examined alcohol advertising and marketing from a systems perspective and includes analyses of misinformation disseminated by alcohol industry corporate social responsibility bodies. He is a co-founder and member of the Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM. Sandro Galea is Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He has been named an epidemiology innovator by Time, a top voice in healthcare by LinkedIn, and is one of the most cited social scientists in the world. His writing and work are featured regularly in national and global public media. A native of Malta, he has served as a field physician for Doctors Without Borders and has held academic positions at Columbia University, University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Reviews
The Commercial Determinants of Health is a book that should transform how public health is defined, taught and delivered. Its contributors, 54 academics from Canada to New Zealand to Ethiopia to the U.K., explain how corporations and governments promote prosperity even at the cost of their customers' and citizens' lives. * Crawford Kilian, TheTyee.ca *
Power, privilege, and profitable poisons: commercial determinants are fast becoming the most urgent and significant health, social, and governance challenge of our time. At the heart of the greatest risk facing our planet and populations, this book is an important resource furthering our understandings and catalyzing our responses to the commercial determinants of health. * Sandro Demaio, CEO, VicHealth *
An important and timely introduction to the field of how commercial factors shape our health, and what we might do about it. This book is essential reading for all working to reduce health inequalities. * Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive, The Health Foundation *
This much needed and unprecedented resource tackles the 'elephant in the room'-the dramatic impacts of for-profit enterprises on global health. As a World Health Organization priority area, these commercial determinants of health must be understood and addressed to improve health, wellbeing, and equity. This book's depth and scope across geographies, populations, and industries is a valuable resource. I encourage anyone working in global health or interested in how industries impact the world around us to read it and apply its messages. * Etienne Krug, Director, Social Determinants, World Health Organization *
This is a timely and impressive collection by leading scholars on the current state of research on the commercial determinants of health. An essential resource for anyone concerned about how certain forms of profit-seeking are running roughshod over the well-being of populations and the planet. * Kelley Lee, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance, Simon Fraser University, and Scientific Director, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197578759
Author Nason Maani
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 238mm * 27mm