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Background material on Social Determinants of Health
The report by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health under the leadership of Sir Michael Marmot: Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health.
World Health Organization: Priorities for Research on equity in health: Implications for global and national priority setting and the role of WHO to take the health equity research agenda forward. Discussion paper 9, September 2009.
See the World Health Organizations special theme on the Commission on Social Determinats of Health.
WHO priorities for research on equity and health - consultation: Priorities for research on equity and health - implications for global and national priority setting and the role of WHO to take the health equity research agenda forward. (Pdf)
Distance learning course: Global learning device on Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy Formulation
Risk factors and public health in Denmark by Knud Juel, Jan Sørensen and Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Volume 36 Supplement 1 November 2008,Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
"......This report presents a comprehensive, broad description and analysis of the impact of selected risk factors on public health in Denmark. As used in this study the term risk factor is broadly defined as a factor causally related to health status. The individual risk factors may occur at various levels in a larger causal network encompassing biological factors such as hypertension, lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, and social factors such as educational level. The report operates with 19 risk factors and 18 indicators of health and social economic costs. The choice of risk factors and indicators was made by the National Institute of Public Health in consultation with the National Board of Health on the basis of their importance and public interest and data availability...."
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