Corporate Social Responsibility and Population Health

Abstract

In recent decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) as part of socially sustainable business organizations operations has become a common practice across developed and developing countries. The objective of this mini review is to reflect on the potential role that CSR might have on the health of stakeholders (employees and society in general). We suggest that there is an opportunity for business to become agents of change and contribute to improved population health. Therefore, public health researchers need to explore how business organizations can, through CSR impact population health currently and in years to come. This would occur through helping to address global challenges in the workplace and immediate local communities, but above all through identifying the role businesses play in contributing to sustainable development and sustainable population health/health promotion across entire societies regardless of their stage of economic development.

Factors associated with social responsibility among university students in Yala, Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…A healthy society can be built by health promotion, which must take place socially responsibly and holistically [22]. Social responsibility becomes a common practice across developed and developing countries depending on the socially sustainable health of stakeholders [23]. Furthermore, social responsibility does not require technology [22].…”

CSR Reporting of Stakeholders’ Health: Proposal for a New Perspective

“…During the last two decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important research topic [1][2][3] as well as an important issue for the business organisations [4][5][6][7]. Business organisations are integrating CSR as part of their actions in order to satisfy the social and environmental concerns of the society [8][9][10][11][12]. There are many implications of CSR but we want to specify that CSR aims to contribute to sustainable development as it is assumed to be the responsibility of the organisation towards the stakeholders and the society [8,10,11,[13][14][15].…”

La satisfacción laboral como efecto moderador entre las prácticas organizacionales de recursos humanos y las líneas estratégicas de responsabilidad social corporativa en México

“…Hiswais, Wulff, Vidman y Macassa (2020) y Macassa, Francisco y McGrath (2017) mencionan que el nuevo contexto de los negocios, sobre todo en países emergentes con la influencia de compañías multinacionales es sus territorios, ha comenzado a poner en práctica una variedad de iniciativas y estrategias en beneficio de la sociedad y de su fuerza laboral, como programas para el mejoramiento de la salud y estrategias para disminuir los riesgos psicosociales en el trabajo (Uribe, Gutiérrez y Amézquita, 2020; Luna-Chávez, Anaya-Velasco y Ramírez-Lira, 2019; Rubio-Avila y Gómez-Sánchez, 2018). Estos proyectos propenden a mejorar las condiciones de trabajo y se espera que se vean reflejados en la productividad y en la satisfacción de los trabajadores (López, Ojeda y Ríos, 2017;Voegtlin y Greenwood, 2016; Baumann-Pauly, Wickert, Spence y Scherer, 2013), así como en la calidad de su trabajo (Martínez-García, Sorribes y Celma, 2018).…”