van Schalkwyk May C I, Maani Nason, Hawkins Benjamin, Petticrew Mark, Buse Kent
Department of Health Services Research and Policy, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK.
Global Health Policy Unit School of Social and Political Science, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK.
Health Promot Int. 2024 Dec 1;39(6). doi: 10.1093/heapro/daae182.
The discourses promoted by powerful commercial actors whose business activities are damaging to health undermine the potential for the transformational changes urgently needed to address pressing public health and environmental threats globally. This piece provides an analysis of corporate discursive practices and the mechanisms through which they contaminate scientific and policy debates and harm public and environmental health. We refer to this phenomenon as 'discursive pollution' to reflect the parallels between the effects of informational strategies and the commercial activities of harmful industries. It aims to contribute to the literature on the commercial determinants of health by offering a cross-industry perspective of discursive practices and the contradictions that underpin industry-favourable discourses. We propose how the health community can facilitate the construction of alternative discourses by revealing the contradictions and assumptions underpinning industry-favourable discourses.
强大的商业行为体所推动的话语，其商业活动对健康有害，破坏了全球应对紧迫的公共卫生和环境威胁所需的变革性变化的潜力。本文分析了企业的话语实践及其污染科学和政策辩论、损害公众和环境健康的机制。我们将这一现象称为“话语污染”，以反映信息策略的影响与有害行业商业活动之间的相似之处。它旨在通过提供话语实践的跨行业视角以及支撑行业有利话语的矛盾，为健康的商业决定因素的文献做出贡献。我们提出了健康界如何通过揭示支撑行业有利话语的矛盾和假设来促进替代性话语的构建。
