Spotlighting commercial drivers of health
25 minutes
In this episode:
Professor of Public Health , University of Bath
Commercial Determinants of Health Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Health Equity , Australian National University
In recent decades growing attention has been paid to how the social and environmental conditions in which we live— such as air quality (environmental) and income (social) — affect our health. These are known as social and environmental determinants of health. Now a spotlight has been turned on commercial determinants of health, thanks to a new series in The Lancet. Today we’re chatting with three contributors to that series to learn more about commercial determinants: how the products made by commercial actors, and the processes they use in making them, affect people’s health, and how we might start to reduce those impacts.
Published on: 5 June 2023
