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Gender and the commercial determinants of health

In: A Research Agenda for Gender and Health

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  • Sarah Hill

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Health is strongly influenced by commercial actors. For-profit organisations engage in a range of activities impacting the behaviours, relationships, environments and social systems that shape our health. These impacts are necessarily gendered. That is, they are experienced differently - and have different health effects - for women, men and people with other gender identities. They also interact with gendered social, economic and political systems in ways that can harm health by reinforcing problematic gender dynamics, exploiting gendered patterns of production, and exacerbating gender inequities. This chapter examines the gendered impacts of the commercial determinants of health. It briefly reviews relevant theory and the historical role of commercial interests in shaping our gendered legal, political and social systems. The gendered impacts of commercial determinants are then explored via a case-study of alcohol - noting the gendered nature of alcohol-related harm, alcohol advertising, and the political economy of the alcohol industry.

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  • Sarah Hill, 2024. "Gender and the commercial determinants of health," Chapters, in: Jasmine Gideon & Sarah Hawkes (ed.), A Research Agenda for Gender and Health, chapter 6, pages 107-122, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21371_6
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