World Health Organization March 24, 2023

Research highlights the urgent need for a global response

The private sector has a major influence on health through its products and practices. Commercial actors influence health in varied and complex ways. They have been fundamental in developing and delivering essential health goods and services, but some of their products and practices are responsible for escalating ill-health and health inequity worldwide. The frameworks for understanding and an agenda for responding to these influences on health are set out in The Lancet Series on the Commercial Determinants of Health published today. Its three papers show the way to a world where health comes before profit and all people live free from harms caused by commercial forces.

“As the Lancet Series on...

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