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‘As Long as It Comes off as a Cigarette Ad, Not a Civil Rights Message’: Gender, Inequality and the Commercial Determinants of Health

by
Sarah E. Hill
1,*,† and
Sharon Friel
2,†
1
Global Health Policy Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK
2
Menzies Centre for Health Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University, Canberra ACT0200, Australia
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Members of the SPECTRUM Consortium (Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm), UK.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(21), 7902; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217902
Received: 27 September 2020 / Revised: 20 October 2020 / Accepted: 26 October 2020 / Published: 29 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women, Patriarchy and Health Inequalities: An Unresolved Issue)
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Scholarship on the commercial determinants of health (CDoH) has sought to understand the multiple ways corporate policies, practices and products affect population health. At the same time, gender is recognised as a key determinant of health and an important axis of health inequalities. To date, there has been limited attention paid to the ways in which the CDoH engage with and impact on gender inequalities and health. This review seeks to address this gap by examining evidence on the practices and strategies of two industries—tobacco and alcohol—and their interaction with gender, with a particular focus on women. We first describe the practices by which these industries engage with women in their marketing and corporate social responsibility activities, reinforcing problematic gender norms and stereotypes that harm women and girls. We then examine how tobacco and alcohol companies contribute to gender inequalities through a range of strategies intended to protect their market freedoms and privileged position in society. By reinforcing gender inequalities at multiple levels, CDoH undermine the health of women and girls and exacerbate global health inequalities. View Full-Text
Keywords: gender; inequality; commercial determinants of health; social determinants of health; corporate political activity; tobacco industry; alcohol industry gender; inequality; commercial determinants of health; social determinants of health; corporate political activity; tobacco industry; alcohol industry
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Hill, S.E.; Friel, S. ‘As Long as It Comes off as a Cigarette Ad, Not a Civil Rights Message’: Gender, Inequality and the Commercial Determinants of Health. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 7902. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217902

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Hill SE, Friel S. ‘As Long as It Comes off as a Cigarette Ad, Not a Civil Rights Message’: Gender, Inequality and the Commercial Determinants of Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(21):7902. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217902

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Hill, Sarah E., and Sharon Friel. 2020. "‘As Long as It Comes off as a Cigarette Ad, Not a Civil Rights Message’: Gender, Inequality and the Commercial Determinants of Health" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21: 7902. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217902

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