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From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Dennis Raphael
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:49 PM
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Subject: sdoh

The knowledge of the social determinants of health is quite old, but it may
have been called differently.
For example William Henry Welch said in 1915:
"It is a well-known fact that there are no social, no industrial, no
economic problems which are not related to problems of health."
Flexner S and Flexner JT 1941. William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of
American Medicine New York: Viking Press 1941, page
362


When did anybody start to use the exact term?   I tried some library
searches on the Internet using the words social, determinants,
health in the title:
On the COPAC database (  http://copac.ac.uk/copac/)  I found a few
interesting references, the oldest dating from 1957 :

 Social determinants of health and fertility in the Gezira / [by] Tameem,
Omer Abdalla ; Sudan Gezira Board. Social and Economic
 Research Unit. Social Research Section . 1983
 Selected readings in the cultural, social and behavioural determinants of
health / edited by John C. Caldwell and Gigi Santow .
 1989
 Theory, practice, and application of prevention in environmental health
services : social determinants of human health : task force
 reports / sponsored by the John E. Fogarty International Center for
Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of
 Health, and the American College of Preventive Medicine . 1976
 Conference on social and physical environment variables as determinants of
mental health / Department of Health, Education and
 Welfare . 1957



While the term certainly became very popular during the 90's, it definitely
has been used before.

Reiner

Reiner Banken M.D. M.Sc.
Agence d'évaluation des technologies et des modes d'intervention en santé
(AÉTMIS)
[Agency for Health Services and Technology Assessment]
2021, avenue Union, bureau 1040
Montreal (Quebec)

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