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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...

    Carles Muntaner, Sanjeev Sridharan, Orielle Solar in Journal of Public Health Policy (2009)

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    Punching 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...

    Fran Baum, Jennie Popay, Toni Delany-Crowe in International Journal for Equity in Health (2018)

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    Action 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...

    Orielle Solar, Nicole Valentine in International Journal for Equity in Health (2023)