Kumanan Rasanathan & Rüdiger Krech
Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, Geneva , Switzerland.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization October 2011
Available online at: http://bit.ly/nIxOak
“…..Noncommunicable diseases cannot be effectively addressed without action on social determinants of health. Without addressing social inequalities and the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, along with the reasons that health systems work better for some population groups than for others – that is, adopting a social determinants approach – prospects for reversing the noncommunicable diseases epidemics are poor..”
