2016 GH Sesi 4 YM World trade vs world health

World trade vs world health
Yodi Mahendradhata

Which industries poses major risks
to global health?

Big industries vs global health

Tobacco

Food &
beverages

Pharma

Cars

Global cigarette consumption is increasing
7000

Cigarettes in billions


6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2009

Top 10 countries with highest adult diabetes
cases (Wild et al 2004)
Year 2000

Year 2030

Rank

Country


Adult cases
(million)

Percentage

Rank

Country

Adult cases Percentage
(million)

1

India

31.6

5.5


1

India

79.3

8.0

2

China

20.7

2.4

2

China


42.2

3.7

3

USA

17.6

8.8

3

USA

30.2

11.2


4

Indonesia

8.4

6.7

4

Indonesia

12.2

10.6

5

Japan


6.8

6.7

5

Pakistan

13.8

8.7

6

Pakistan

5.2

7.7


6

Brazil

11.3

7.0

7

Russia

4.6

4.2

7

Bangladesh


11.1

7.7

8

Brazil

4.5

4.3

8

Japan

8.9

8.8


9

Italy

4.2

9.2

9

Philippines

7.8

10.2

10

Bangladesh


3.2

4.6

10

Egypt

6.7

9.7

Sales of unhealthy food is rising

Increasing consumption of processed food
and soft drinks in Asia*

*Baker et al (2014)

Per capita consumption of coca-cola*

800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Mexico

USA

Australia

South Africa

Brazil

Germany

Japan

France

Thailand

China

Indonesia

http://www.statista.com/statistics/271156/per-capita-consumption-of-soft-drinks-of-the-coca-cola-company-by-country/

Top 10 pharmaceutical companies
Rank

Company

Country

Revenue (billion USD)

1

Pfizer

US

72.69

2

Johnson & Johnson

US

63.75

3

Roche

Switzerland

57.37

4

Novartis

Switzerland

46.36

5

Sanofi-Aventis

France

43.52

6

GlaxoSmithKline

UK

40.42

7

Abbott

US

32.80

8

AstraZeneca

UK

31.60

9

Merck & Co.

US

28.54

10

Bristol-Myers Squibb

US

19.98

Examples of double standards in drugs
Developed counties

Developing countries

Aspirin (Bayer)

Germany: Not for use in
children under the age of 12
(risk of Reye’s syndrome often fatal liver disease)

Brazil: Specifically
promoted for children

Lesterol (Aventis)

Withdrawn in USA in 1995, in
Germany in 1998

Continued to be sold in
Brazil until May 2004

Dipyrone (Boehringer
Ingelheim)

Not sold in Canada, Sweden,
UK, USA

Marketed in Brazil, Central
America, Mexico, Pakistan,
South Africa

Irrational, Non-essential or
Hazardous Drugs, India 1999
Producer

Company
Headquarters

Description

Becosules

Pfizer

United States

Irrational vitamin mixture

3

Corex

Pfizer

United States

Irrational cough mixture

9

Liv-52

Himalaya

India

Useless liver drug

11

Dexorange

FrancoIndian

India/France

Blood tonic

12

Digene

Abbott

United States

Needless antacid

17

Combiflam

Aventis

France

Irrational analgesic mixture

20

Polybion

E Merck

Germany

Irrational vitamin mixture

21

Glucon-D

Heinz

United States

Useless nutrients

22

Evion

E Merck

Germany

Irrational vitamin mixture

25

Revital

Ranbaxy

India

Oral ginseng tonic

Rank

Brand name

1

National Commission on Macroeconomics – Access to Essential Drugs and Medicine

Big industries vs global health

Tobacco

Food &
beverages

Pharma

Cars

Tactics of multinational
corporations?

Contents of Ads in Medical Journal in Developing and
Developed Countries
Type of
information

Percent of ads containing
information
Developed
Developing
countries
countries

Indications

89

87

Contraindications

61

28

Warnings

55

29

Side effects

64

29

Herxheimer. International Journal of Health Services 1993;23:161-72.

Prevalence of physician and drug industry
relationship (Campbell et al 2007)
Industry provides
Meals
Pharmaceutical samples
Reimbursement for CMEs
Payment for consulting
Payment for speaker
Reimbursement for travel, food, lodging at professional meetings
Payment for serving on as an advisory board
Free tickets to cultural or sporting events
Any gift or money relationship

Prevalence
83
78
26
18
16
15
9
7
94

Barriers to pharmaceutical promotions
Country

Regulations

US

Regulatory and cost hurdles

UK, France, Germany

Fees, Budget pressures, restrictions, low incetives

Russia

Outlawed

Developing countries

???

Tactics of the corporations
Political

Public
relations

Product

Finance

Extra
legal

Political tactics

Lobbying

Finance

Business
associations

Corporate
foundations

Public Relations tactics
Spokespersons

Health
professions
organizations

Corporate
news

Corporate
science

Corporate
social
responsibility

Advertising

Product tactics
Product
modification

Targeting
vulnerable
populations

Manipulating
science

Extra Legal tactics

Infiltrating
opposition
group

Illegal activity

WHO private donor contribution
Donor

USD

Gates Foundation

148,174,632

Rotary International

27,038,394

Novartis switzerland

211,933,675

World Lung Foundation

10,396,059

Sanofi-Aventis

9,909,802

Kobe Group

9,000,000

WHO budgetary allocations
Regular budget

Extra budgetary

Infectious

Infectious

Chronic

Chronic

Injury

Injury

World trade vs world health?

WTO vs WHO?
Global trade governance
Centralized and comprehensive
architecture, strong legal
foundations, incentive and capacity

Global health governance
Unstructured plurality, fragmented,
diversified

Expanding membership, vast array of Expertise based influence, non(60) obligations for members
binding collective action

Detailed, complex , legally binding
requirements per agreement

Not legally demanding

Compulsory comprehensive dispute
settlement

No compulsory dispute settlement or
enforcement

TRIPS and health
• TRIPS mandate intellectual property protections that provide
20-year monopoly control
• Limit go er e ts’ a ilit to pro ide ge eri
under publicly funded programs.

edi atio s

• Affects access to medications for life-threatening conditions in
low-income countries

Loss of sales (%) from patent expirations (2010-2012)
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

Length of clinical development (years)
10
9
8
7

6
5
4
3
2
1
0
2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

New drug discovery and development

Three types of diseases
• Type I diseases are incident in both rich and poor countries, with large numbers
of vulnerable population in each.
• Type II diseases are incident in both rich and poor countries, but with a
substantial proportion of the cases in the poor countries
• Type III diseases are those that are overwhelmingly or exclusively incident in the
developing countries

A policy agenda for a movement for a healthier future
(Freudenberg 2014)

• E pa d o su ers’ right to k o a d orporatio s’ dut to
disclose the health consequences of corporate practices and
products
• Require corporations to pay for the health and environmental
consequences of their products and practices
• Establish global health standards for product design and marketing
• Restore public ownership of science and technology
• Restore the visible hand of government in public health protection
• Prevent corporations from using their money and power to
manipulate democratic prcesses

Strategies to promote public health
• Biomedicine
• Lifestyle modification
• Changing corporate practices!

World Trade vs
World Health