Corporate practices, such as advertising, public relations, lobbying, litigation, and
sponsoring scientific research, have a significant impact on the health of the people in the …

Although corporate practices play a substantial role in shaping health and health behavior,
public health researchers have rarely systematically studied these practices as a social …

Industry practices such as advertising, production of unsafe products, and efforts to defeat
health legislation play a major role in current patterns of US ill health. Changing these …

Objectives. We explored what corporate “credibility” means to tobacco companies to
determine why it matters to companies and what a lack of credibility means to them …

When corporations claim the same citizenship rights as human citizens, they exercise an
undue influence on health policy and democratic processes. Surprisingly, the same basic …

Corporations have a great effect on the health of Canadians. Good companies create jobs,
sell valued products at market value, pay a living wage, empower employees, have …

We trace the development of the concept of the corporate determinants of health. We argue
that these determinants are predicated on the unchecked power of corporations and that the …

The preceding chapter has described a variety of activities that some food and beverage
corporations routinely engage in as part of their 'health and wellness' strategies. While there …

Policy Points There is growing understanding of how manufacturers of harmful products
influence health policy. The strategies, approaches, and influences from such manufacturers …

Recently, researchers have debated two views on the connection between lifestyle and
health. In the first, health-related lifestyles including tobacco and alcohol use, diet, and …