When corporations create diseases, womens' health suffers

Suffering from osteopenia? Think you might have hypoactive desire disorder? How about imbalanced hormones? If you've been told you have any of these conditions, you've experienced the corporatization of disease. As public health advocates, we're responsible for educating the public, often about conditions or concerns previously unknown to them. As generalists, we often rely upon external sources of information for our own knowledge about new and emerging conditions. The author will demonstrate that external sources of information about new conditions, such as professional guidelines, review articles, and consensus statements, are often influenced by the corporations which will benefit from the newly defined disorder. The author will examine the development and promotion of osteopenia and female sexual disorders as examples of this practice and point out ways in which public health advocates can identify corporate influence.