The commission on social determinants of health: Tackling the social roots of health inequities

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0749-0751

  Irwin, Alec ^b   Valentine, Nicole ^b   Brown, Chris ^b   Loewenson, Rene ^b,c   Solar, Orielle ^b   Brown, Hilary ^b   Koller, Theadora ^b   Vega, Jeanette ^a  

^a Department of Equity Poverty and Social Determinants of Health ^*

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Training and Research Support Centre Harare   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SHORT SURVEY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33745592752     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030106     Document Type: Short Survey

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