Article review: People, profit, and health — The Lancet series about commercial determinants of health

Friel, S., Collin, J., Daube, M., Depoux, A., Freudenberg, N., Gilmore, A. B., Johns, P., Laar, A., Marten, R., McKee, M., & Mialon, M. (2023). Commercial determinants of health: Future directions. The Lancet, 401(10383), 1229–1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00011-9

Gilmore, A. B., Fabbri, A., Baum, F., Bertscher, A., Bondy, K., Chang, H.-J., Demaio, S., Erzse, A., Freudenberg, N., Friel, S., Hofman, K. J., Johns, P., Abdool Karim, S., Lacy-Nichols, J., de Carvalho, C. M. P., Marten, R., McKee, M., Petticrew, M., Robertson, L., … Thow, A. M. (2023). Defining and conceptualising the commercial deter-minants of health. The Lancet, 401(10383), 1194–1213. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00013-2

Lacy-Nichols, J., Nandi, S., Mialon, M., McCambridge, J., Lee, K., Jones, A., Gilmore, A. B., Galea, S., de Lacy-Vawdon, C., de Carvalho, C. M. P., Baum, F., & Moodie, R. (2023). Conceptualising commercial entities in public health: Beyond unhealthy commodities and transnational corporations. The Lancet, 401(10383), 1214–1228. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00012-0

Mart, S., & Giesbrecht, N. (2015). Red flags on pinkwashed drinks: Contradictions and dangers in marketing alcohol to prevent cancer: Problems with pinkwashed drinks. Addiction, 110(10), 1541–1548. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13035

The Lancet. (2023). Infographic: Rebalancing global power asymmetries to substantially improve human and plan-etary health. https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/commercial-determinants-health-2023

VicHealth. (2023). Commercial Determinants of Health – Summary Report. https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/research-publications/lancet-series-cdoh