Commercial determinants of health

The commercial determinants of health (CDH), part of the broader social determinants of health, are the private sector activities that influence individual and group differences in health status. The term 'commercial' relates to activities intended to generate profit. Specifically, CDH scholarship is concerned with the ways that the profit-making interests of industry actors in the junk food/beverage, resource extraction, automobile, alcohol, gaming, tobacco, and ammunition industries conflict with public health.

The commercial determinants of health cover three areas of focus: unhealthy commodities that contribute to disease and poor health; business, market, and political practices that advertise these commodities and shape policy environments in their favor; and broader "global drivers" of ill-health, such as market-driven economies and globalization, that enable and reinforce these harmful practices.

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