The document summarizes the 2008 report from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. The report calls for closing the health gap in a generation through action on the social determinants of health and reducing social injustices that negatively impact health. It provides recommendations like improving daily living conditions, tackling inequitable distribution of power/resources, and monitoring/researching social determinants. The report concludes that reducing inequities in social determinants can deliberately reduce deaths on a grand scale, though closing the health gap within a generation is an ambitious goal that requires long-term commitment.
17. Recommendations
1. Improve Daily Living Conditions
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Equity from the start
Healthy places healthy people
Fair employment and decent work
Social protection across the life-course
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Universal health care
18. Recommendations /Guiding statements cont..
Recommendations /Guiding statements cont..
2. Tackle the Inequitable Distribution of
Power, Money, and Resources
– Health equity in all policies, systems, and
programmes
– Fair financing
– Market responsibility
– Gender equity
– Political empowerment –inclusion and voice
– Good global governance
19. Recommendations /Guiding statements cont..
3. Measure and Understand the Problem and
Assess the Impact of Action
– The Social Determinants of Health:
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Monitoring,
Research, and
Training
20. Is closing the health gap in a generation
feasible?
• Yes, but is long term agenda for change, start at
the beginning of life and acting through the
whole life-course with policy level change.
• Actors for Action– Multilateral agencies
– WHO
– National and local government
21. Conclusion of the report:
1. Reducing the inequities on social
determinants of health,
2. Deliberate social injustice is kill people on
grand scale.
22. Freelance observation
• Social justice is an inherent part of the human
being.
• Variation in health status of people, within
and between the countries.
• It indicates inequities in health.
23. Cont…
• “Achieving health equity within a generation
”, it is seen too ambitious.
• Call for WHO and all governments rather than
EDPS for limiting the inequities and social
injustice, is sustainable thought.