Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Manor Rd Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK.
School of Public Health, Boston University, 715 Albany St, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Global Health. 2018 Feb 15;14(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s12992-018-0336-y.
The Global Burden of Disease estimates that approximately a third of deaths worldwide are attributable to behavioural risk factors that, at their core, have the consumption of unhealthful products and exposures produced by profit driven commercial entities. We use Steven Lukes' three-dimensional view of power to guide the study of the practices deployed by commercial interests to foster the consumption of these commodities. Additionally, we propose a framework to systematically study corporations and other commercial interests as a distal, structural, societal factor that causes disease and injury. Our framework offers a systematic approach to mapping corporate activity, allowing us to anticipate and prevent actions that may have a deleterious effect on population health.
Our framework may be used by, and can have utility for, public health practitioners, researchers, students, activists and other members of civil society, policy makers and public servants in charge of policy implementation. It can also be useful to corporations who are interested in identifying key actions they can take towards improving population health.
全球疾病负担研究估计，全球约有三分之一的死亡可归因于行为风险因素，而这些行为风险因素的核心是消费由利润驱动的商业实体生产的不健康产品和暴露因素。我们使用史蒂文·卢克斯（Steven Lukes）的权力三维观来指导对商业利益集团为促进这些商品消费而采取的实践的研究。此外，我们提出了一个框架，系统地研究企业和其他商业利益集团作为导致疾病和伤害的远程、结构性、社会因素。我们的框架提供了一种系统的方法来绘制公司活动，使我们能够预测和防止可能对人口健康产生不利影响的行动。
我们的框架可以被公共卫生从业者、研究人员、学生、活动家和其他民间社会成员、政策制定者和负责政策实施的公务员使用，也可以为有兴趣确定改善人口健康关键行动的公司提供帮助。
