Determinantes Sociales de la Salud

World Conference on Social Determinants of Health
Interview with Rudiger Krech http://bit.ly/qDBTBU

“….The Rio Declaration on Social Determinants of Health will be a political declaration, expressing commitment to take decisive action to reduce health inequities. Member States started discussing the draft text in early September and we have had eight very productive meetings since then. These are informal meetings of Geneva-based Member State missions and we have over 40 governments who are actively engaged….”

The October issue of the WHO Bulletin focuses on the social determinants of health, featuring editorials, interviews and news articles from the United Kingdom, Brazil, India, Chile and Australia.

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/10/en/index.html

Michael Marmot
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, England.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization October 2011;89:702-702. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.094862

Available online at: http://bit.ly/onSHJx

“…..Closing the gap in a generation is a rousing call.1 Did the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) really believe it to be possible? Technically, certainly. Yes, there is a greater than 40-year spread in life expectancy among countries and dramatic social gradients in health within countries. But the evidence suggests that we can make great progress towards closing the health gap by improving, as the CSDH put it, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.

Rüdiger Krech – Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:703-703. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.094870

Available online at: http://bit.ly/mTvy7F

“…..The call on governments to address the major challenge of health inequities which are determined by the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, is not new.

The Commission on Social Determinants of Health worked on this. Its report re-enforces the message from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, which itself was strongly rooted in the commitments made at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata in 1978