Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes
@article{Marmot2007AchievingHE, title={Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes}, author={M. Marmot and on behalf of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health}, journal={The Lancet}, year={2007}, volume={370}, pages={1153-1163} }
Health is a universal human aspiration and a basic human need. The development of society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population's health, how fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree of protection provided from disadvantage due to ill-health. Health equity is central to this premise and to the work of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Strengthening health equity--globally and within countries--means going beyond contemporary… CONTINUE READING
Paper Mentions
772 Citations
Should health be seen as the central goal and means?
- Political Science, Medicine
- European journal of public health
- 2009
- 1
- PDF
Equity and the Social Determinants of Health in European Cities
- Political Science, Medicine
- Journal of Urban Health
- 2012
- 12
Intersectoral Action for Health: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions in the WHO European Region
- Political Science
- 2018
- Highly Influenced
Social determinants of health and health inequities in Nakuru (Kenya)
- Medicine
- International journal for equity in health
- 2009
- 17
Microcredit and the social determinants of health: a conceptual approach.
- Political Science, Medicine
- Public health nursing
- 2011
- 4
Accelerating Empowerment for Sustainable Development: The Need for Health Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Medicine
- 2013
- 6
Widening the aim of health promotion to include the most disadvantaged: vulnerable adolescents and the social determinants of health.
- Sociology, Medicine
- Health education research
- 2010
- 25
- PDF
The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health
- Economics
- 2009
- 17
- PDF
Shedding light on governance for Roma health inequities
- Political Science, Medicine
- Journal of prevention & intervention in the community
- 2018
- 4
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 189 REFERENCES
Integrated Approaches to Address the Social Determinants of Health for Reducing Health Inequity
- Sociology, Medicine
- Journal of Urban Health
- 2007
- 40
- PDF
Improving Health and Building Human Capital Through an Effective Primary Care System
- Medicine
- Journal of Urban Health
- 2007
- 53
- PDF
Income and Health in Cities: the Messages from Stylized Facts
- Economics, Medicine
- Journal of Urban Health
- 2007
- 15
- PDF
Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough
- Medicine
- The Lancet
- 2003
- 788
- PDF
Social Capital and Healthy Urbanization in a Globalized World
- Economics, Medicine
- Journal of Urban Health
- 2007
- 54
- PDF
[Renewing primary health care in the Americas].
- Medicine
- Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health
- 2007
- 91
- PDF