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The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age
(Annual Review of Public Health, 2011-04-21)
In the United States, awareness is increasing that medical care alone cannot adequately improve health overall or reduce health disparities without also addressing where and how people live. A critical mass of relevant ...
The wider determinants of inequalities in health: a decomposition analysis
(International Journal for Equity in Health, 2011)
Background: The common starting point of many studies scrutinizing the factors underlying health inequalities is that material, cultural-behavioural, and psycho-social factors affect the distribution of health systematically ...
Health and health-care systems in southeast Asia: diversity and transitions
(The Lancet, 2011-01-25)
Southeast Asia is a region of enormous social, economic, and political diversity, both across and within countries, shaped by its history, geography, and position as a major crossroad of trade and the movement of goods and ...
Improving equity in health by addressing social determinants
(World Health Organization, 2011)
This recently published book highlights actions to improve health equity based on findings from the nine global Knowledge Networks that were established during the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
Their ...
An Asia Pacific Spotlight on Health Inequity: Taking Action to Address the Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Equity in Asia Pacific
(2011)
In the full report we describe the extent of health inequities between and within countries across the Asia Pacific region. We explore the plausible causal relationships between social and environmental factors and health ...
Health care and equity in India
(The Lancet, 2011)
In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of the ...