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Cite as Citation reference for the source document. J.M. Pearce and D. Denkenberger, “Aligning Executive Incentives with Global Public Health GoalsProgress in Health Sciences 5(2), 16-23 (2015). open access

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that together tobacco and alcohol kill about 9 million people annually despite aggressive and widespread public health controls. These legal industries persist because of the demand for their products and their substantial economic influence, which is magnified by the concentration of wealth in the executives of leading corporations that profit from increased legal drug sales.

Materials and methods[edit | edit source]

This preliminary study quantifies the link between global premature deaths from these legal addictive drugs as a function of executive compensation in order to provide the necessary data to make more effective policy recommendations for preventing legal drug-related deaths.

Results[edit | edit source]

The results indicate a need to incentivize chief executive officers (CEOs), such that they have a constant marginal utility per life saved.

Conclusions[edit | edit source]

An executive compensation incentive that moves to eliminate tobacco use is achieved by a pay structure that increases exponentially with the number of lives saved.

Key words[edit | edit source]

tobacco control; alcohol control; global public health; executive compensation

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Authors Joshua M. Pearce
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 4 pages link here
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Created December 22, 2015 by Joshua M. Pearce
Modified July 14, 2023 by Felipe Schenone
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