TY - JOUR
T1 - Is the commercial determinants conversation confined to the health sciences? Potentially, and that’s a problem
AU - Hagenaars, Luc Louis
AU - Maani, Nason
AU - Schmidt, Laura Anne
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2024/12/1
Y1 - 2024/12/1
N2 - The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are attracting increased interest and are of great importance when discussing how trade affects health. Through a citation analysis of recent foundational CDoH documents (a Lancet paper series and an Oxford University textbook), we find that fully 71% of all citations reference the health sciences. The health sciences may be well suited to documenting the specific pathways of how commercial (by)products and practices harm human health. However, to operationalize upstream solutions for mitigating these harms, our citation analysis suggests that the field can engage political scientists, economists, sociologists, the trade law and business, as well as advocates in civil society and journalism, more so than it currently does. With CDoH explicitly referring to the interaction between commerce and health, CDoH researchers might be uniquely positioned to get health on the agenda of others, which requires that CDoH methods, datasets, evidence reviews, and proposed interventions are drawn from the widest possible range of sources.
AB - The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are attracting increased interest and are of great importance when discussing how trade affects health. Through a citation analysis of recent foundational CDoH documents (a Lancet paper series and an Oxford University textbook), we find that fully 71% of all citations reference the health sciences. The health sciences may be well suited to documenting the specific pathways of how commercial (by)products and practices harm human health. However, to operationalize upstream solutions for mitigating these harms, our citation analysis suggests that the field can engage political scientists, economists, sociologists, the trade law and business, as well as advocates in civil society and journalism, more so than it currently does. With CDoH explicitly referring to the interaction between commerce and health, CDoH researchers might be uniquely positioned to get health on the agenda of others, which requires that CDoH methods, datasets, evidence reviews, and proposed interventions are drawn from the widest possible range of sources.
KW - Citation analysis
KW - Commerce
KW - Medicine
KW - Meta research
KW - Trade
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00989-8
DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00989-8
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 38167207
SN - 1744-8603
VL - 20
JO - Globalization and health
JF - Globalization and health
IS - 1
M1 - 3
ER -