Commercial determinants of health

[2] Commercial determinants of health can affect people's health positively (such as sport or medical industries) or negatively (such as arms and tobacco industries).

[2][3] They are part of the broader social determinants of health.

Corporate activities influences the legal, physical, and price environments in which people live.

For example:[2][19] According to The Lancet, 'four industries (tobacco, unhealthy food, fossil fuel, and alcohol) are responsible for at least a third of global deaths per year'.

[19] In 2024, the World Health Organization published a report including these figures.

Junk food and its advertising are commercial determinants of health.
Gift from tobacco industry lobbyists to a European politician in 2013.
Air pollution causes 7 million premature deaths every year. [ 1 ]