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Commentary: Against unjust global distribution of power and money: The report of the WHO commission on the social determinants of health: Global inequality and the future of public health policy
In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the report of its Commission on Social Determinants of Health – Closing the Gap in a Generation. We describe how the report was initially received, what we...
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Open AccessPunching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
Life expectancy initially improves rapidly with economic development but then tails off. Yet, at any level of economic development, some countries do better, and some worse, than expected – they either punch a...
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Open AccessAction on the social determinants for advancing health equity in the time of COVID-19: perspectives of actors engaged in a WHO Special Initiative
Since the 2008 publication of the reports of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and its nine knowledge networks, substantial research has been undertaken to document and describe health inequities...