Closing the Gap in a Generation

World Health Organization, C. o. S. D. o. H. (2008). Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. World Health Organization.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2008

Pages cited

246 pp.

Link

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241563703

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Domain-specific

• Population Health
  • The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health frames health inequities as arising from the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age and from the distribution of power, money, and resources.

Mechanisms

• Clinical / Social-Determinant Matching
  • Its strength is refusing the false choice between treating the patient and changing their conditions: it does both, but matches the durable leverage to the social determinants of health where those are the real generator.

    This sourceIdentifies social and economic living conditions as generators of health inequity and calls for durable action on those determinants.

• Social Determinants Mapping
  • Its strength is relocating the cause from the exam room to the conditions of life, so the remedy can move there too — the core insight of the social-determinants-of-health tradition.

    This sourceWHO locates avoidable health inequities in people's living and working conditions and calls for cross-sector action on those conditions and their social, economic, and political drivers.

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