Public release date: 22-May-2006

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Tackling the social roots of health inequities
"Throughout the world, people who are vulnerable and socially disadvantaged
have less access to health resources, get sicker, and die earlier than
people in more privileged social positions," say Alec Irwin and colleagues
from the World Health Organization (WHO). Ministries of health, they say,
cannot transform social conditions single-handedly, but the health sector
can take the lead in advancing an approach to health policy that
incorporates actions on the social determinants of health across government
departments and wider society. Irwin and colleagues discuss why the WHO has
created the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which aims to
strengthen health equity by "catalyzing policy and institutional change to
address the social determinants of health within countries, among
institutions working in global health, and within WHO itself."
Citation: Irwin A, Valentine N, Brown C, Loewenson R, Solar O, et al.
(2006) The Commission on Social Determinants of Health: Tackling the social
roots of health inequities. PLoS Med 3(6): e106.

BOTH LINKS WORK - DR

http://www.plos.org/press/plme-03-06-irwin.pdf

PLEASE ADD THE LINK TO THE PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN ONLINE VERSIONS OF YOUR
REPORT: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030106


CONTACT: Alex Irwin
World Health Organization
Department of Equity, Poverty, and Social Determinants of Health
Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland
+41 22 791 49 09
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