Social determinants of health and the design of health programmes for the poor

@article{Taylor2008SocialDO,
  title={Social determinants of health and the design of health programmes for the poor},
  author={Sebastian A.J. Taylor and Alireza Marandi},
  journal={BMJ : British Medical Journal},
  year={2008},
  volume={337}
}
Sebastian Taylor and Alireza Marandi provide examples of how health programme designs that take social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors into account can improve health equity, especially among the poor 
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