Mapping business action on health inequality: a scoping review
Year: 2026
Type: study-registration
Abstract: Scholarship on the commercial determinants of health has developed rapidly, but has been organised principally around identifying and constraining corporate harm, and around a narrow segment of commercial actors. Considerably less is known about action that businesses take with the stated intention of improving health or narrowing health inequality among their workforces, supply chains and the places in which they operate. The Business of Health Equity: The Marmot Review for Industry identifies three domains through which businesses influence health equity, namely the conditions of employment and work they provide, the goods and services they produce, and their wider impact on society and the environment, and was accompanied by the establishment of a place-based health equity network. Businesses are therefore being invited into arrangements for which there is neither an agreed account of what they contribute nor an established framework for describing how that contribution is organised, resourced and held to account.
Source: Open Science Framework
Authors: Lisa Knight, Adam Shore, Amanda Ordish
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212399656