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dc.contributor.authorOttersen, Ole Petter
dc.contributor.authorDasgupta, Jashodhara
dc.contributor.authorBlouin, Chantal
dc.contributor.authorBuss, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorChongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi
dc.contributor.authorFrenk, Julio
dc.contributor.authorFukuda-Parr, Sakiko
dc.contributor.authorGawanas, Bience P.
dc.contributor.authorGiacaman, Rita
dc.contributor.authorGyapong, John
dc.contributor.authorLeaning, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorMarmot, Michael
dc.contributor.authorMcNeill, Desmond
dc.contributor.authorMongella, Gertrude I.
dc.contributor.authorMoyo, Nkosana
dc.contributor.authorMøgedal, Sigrun
dc.contributor.authorNtsaluba, Ayanda
dc.contributor.authorOoms, Gorik
dc.contributor.authorBjertness, Espen
dc.contributor.authorLie, Ann Louise
dc.contributor.authorMoon, Suerie
dc.contributor.authorRoalkvam, Sidsel
dc.contributor.authorSandberg, Kristin I.
dc.contributor.authorScheel, Inger B.
dc.contributor.otherThe Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-27T15:54:35Z
dc.date.available2021-02-27T15:54:35Z
dc.date.issued2014-02-11
dc.identifier.citationThe Lancet 2014. 383 (2), p 630-667.
dc.identifier.urihttps://resources.equityinitiative.org/handle/ei/79
dc.description.abstractDespite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, its eff orts often come into confl ict with powerful global actors in pursuit of other interests such as protection of national security, safeguarding of sovereignty, or economic goals. This is the starting point of The Lancet–University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. With globalisation, health inequity increasingly results from transnational activities that involve actors with diff erent interests and degrees of power: states, transnational corporations, civil society, and others. The decisions, policies, and actions of such actors are, in turn, founded on global social norms. Their actions are not designed to harm health, but can have negative side effects that create health inequities. The norms, policies, and practices that arise from global political interaction across all sectors that aff ect health are what we call global political determinants of health. The Commission argues that global political determinants that unfavourably aff ect the health of some groups of people relative to others are unfair, and that at least some harms could be avoided by improving how global governance works. There is an urgent need to understand how public health can be better protected and promoted in the realm of global governance, but this issue is a complex and politically sensitive one. Global governance processes involve the distribution of economic, intellectual, normative, and political resources, and to assess their eff ect on health requires an analysis of power. This report examines power disparities and dynamics across a range of policy areas that aff ect health and that require improved global governance: economic crises and austerity measures, knowledge and intellectual property, foreign investment treaties, food security, transnational corporate activity, irregular migration, and violent confl ict.
dc.format.extent38 p.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThe Lancet
dc.relation.ispartofthelancet 2014, 383 (2)
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dc.subjectHealth inequity
dc.subjectHealth risks
dc.subjectHealth sector
dc.subjectGlobal governance for health
dc.subject.lcshWorld health
dc.subject.lcshHealth planning
dc.titleThe political origins of health inequity: prospects for change
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dc.rights.holderThe Lancet Commissions
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62407-1


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