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Financialization, Food Sovereignty, and Oral Health: A Structured Narrative Review Within the One Health Framework
Maria Antoniadou1, Theodoros Varzakas2, Martin Caraher3
1Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
|August 13, 2026
Summary
Financialization of food systems impacts health, but food sovereignty may offer protective benefits. Oral health can serve as a key indicator for these complex food system dynamics and inequalities.
Area of Science:
- Interdisciplinary research integrating food systems, public health, and One Health.
- Focus on the intersection of financialization, food sovereignty, and oral health outcomes.
Background:
- Contemporary food systems are influenced by financialization and corporate power, affecting food access, diet, and health.
- Existing research inadequately integrates food-system financialization, food sovereignty, and oral health.
- A gap exists in understanding how structural food system changes impact population health, particularly oral health.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critically synthesize evidence on the relationships between food-system financialization, food sovereignty, and oral health.
- To develop an integrative conceptual framework linking food system structures, governance, and oral health.
- To propose oral health as a measurable interface for food system transformations.
Main Methods:
- Structured narrative review synthesizing interdisciplinary evidence.
- Searches conducted across major academic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed/MEDLINE, Google Scholar).
- Inclusion of citation searching and authoritative institutional sources.
Main Results:
- Financialization impacts health via market concentration, ultra-processed food expansion, and corporate control of food environments.
- Food sovereignty can mitigate negative impacts by enhancing agency, resource distribution, and local governance.
- Dietary exposures and biological mechanisms link food system structures to oral health inequalities.
Conclusions:
- A novel framework integrates food system structures, governance, dietary exposures, and oral health.
- Oral health serves as a potential biological indicator for assessing food system impacts and inequalities.
- Further empirical research is needed to validate the proposed pathways and framework across diverse contexts.
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