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PBH 420

Commercial Determinants of Health

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeB
Standard

Overview

Description

Survey of corporate marketing and lobbying practices that are harmful to health. Emphasis on politics, business, economics and law.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
  • at least 3 courses from OC4-CO8 completed
  • Junior or Senior standing
PBH 101PBH 211
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed, at least 3 courses from OC4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing; PBH 101 and PBH 211

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Terms

fall, spring

Core

CO13

Restrictions

Junior or Senior standing

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • describe how corporate industries are a key driver of communicable (NCDs).
  • compare commercial determinants with other determinants of health, including biological, behavioral, social, political, cultural and environmental.
  • explain and compare corporate political activity among major industries of tobacco, alcohol, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and fossil fuels.
  • describe key principles of business, economics, politics and law involved in health determinants.
  • synthesize the principles of unhealthy commodities, industrial epidemics, and profit-driven diseases in relation to negative externalities harmful to health.
  • explore, compare and critique different approaches, frameworks and best practices to protect, manage, and mitigate corporate influence and conflicts of interests on efforts to curb the NCD epidemic.
  • explain the influence of non-state actor groups, networks, and coalitions related to NCD policy design, implementation and evaluation.