Cross-posted from: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
By: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) ruglucia@paho.org
The Interim Statement of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health 2007 Achieving Health Equity: From root causes to fair outcomes
Website: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en/
This is the Interim Statement of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. It sets out the Commission's vision and goals, the problems it seeks to ameliorate, and the intellectual foundation for a social determinants approach. In doing so, the Interim Statement is a resource for stakeholders concerned with social determinants of health and health equity, as they build towards a global movement.
Recommendations for action, based on the evidence gathered across all the Commission's work streams, will be made in the Final Report in May 2008.
Download the full statement [pdf 535kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/csdh_media/csdh_interim_statement_07.pdf>
Download the chapters
Introduction [pdf 272kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/interim_statement/csdh_interim_statement_intro_07.pdf>
Preface, about the Commission, the Commissioners.
Health inequality, inequity, and social determinants of health [pdf 54kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/interim_statement/csdh_interim_statement_inequity_07.pdf>
Global health improvements but still major inequalities between countries; health inequalities within countries and the social gradient; justice, inequality and inequity; empowerment and freedom - dealing with poverty and the gradient.
Social determinants of health and health equity: "the causes of the causes" [pdf 13kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/interim_statement/csdh_interim_statement_causes_07.pdf>
Growing, living and working; contextualising behaviour; health systems; the shape of society; the social context; the global arena.
The time for action [pdf 23kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/interim_statement/csdh_interim_statement_action_07.pdf>
Annex: The CSDH multipronged approach [pdf 222kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/interim_statement/csdh_interim_statement_annexes_07.pdf>
The goals, commissioners, knowledge networks, additional key issues, country work streams, civil society organizations, global initiatives, working with WHO.
References [pdf 128kb]http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/interim_statement/csdh_interim_statement_references_07.pdf
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Claudio Schuftan
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