The 20th century has seen impressive gains in health and life expectancy in many parts of the world – but these improvements are unequally distributed. In every country, poor people and those from socially disadvantaged groups get sicker and die sooner than people in more privileged social positions. Not only is there a gap in health between the best-off and the worst-off in society, there is a gradient in health running between them. This gradient can be linked clearly to social and economic conditions. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health was set up by the World Health Organisation to collate global evidence, raise societal debate and recommend policies with the goal of improving the health of the world’s most vulnerable people. This lecture will review the compelling case for action.
Lecture given on 27th November 2007.
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
None
None
Marshall Poe
Oxford University
InfectiousHistorians
Oxford University
Anthony
EMEUNET PODCAST
Anatomy Podcast
Cambridge University
ICGEB
Adrienne Torda
American Physiological Society
Delan Devakumar
New Books Network
Decolonizing Science
Texere Publishing
Mario Veen
theframeshift
Denise Doyle
UCTV
UCTV
Research for Impact Singapore
Oxford University
Oxford University
World Heart Federation
Ann Tushar and Dennis Grencewicz
Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Janis Geary
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
St Anne's College
Sayra Cristancho
The Lancet
YaleUniversity
International Journal of Stroke
Shekhar kc
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Music Mends Minds
Christine Boinett, Alice Matimba, Mariana Vaz, Catherine Holmes, Isabela Malta, Emmanuella Oppong
Cale Lawlor
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
Oxford Brookes Centre for Health, Medicine and Society
Emily Bellshaw Naylor and Marva Gregorio De Souza
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University of Hyderabad
Oxford University
Lisa Quinn
University of Global Health Equity
Jonathan Fuller
Oxford University
Eric Green
Lovelace Biomedical
jeffdenney
Kieran Fitzpatrick
SanyuSisters
Laura Rathbone
The (Un)Scientific Method
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Andrew Kaufman, M.D.
Brookes Biomed
UCL
UCL
Rey De Armas
UCL
BMJ Group
Oxford University
Oxford University
University of Glasgow
Ankit Choudhury
hypertension
University of Otago
The European Society of Human Genetics
Andrei Voicu
JYoungMD@gmail.com
Zinc Media
None
The Bioethics Commission
Academy of Achievement
Sarah Gander
Wellcome Connecting Science
Kelly Callahan
JHU Flash Seminars
Global Perspectives Initiative
ICGEB
Jacinta Bowler
IBTN
Cara O'Malley
MindCORE
Canadian Hemochromatosis Society
wileyblackwellhealth
UCL
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Oxford University
Creatures of the Lit
SAGE Publications Ltd.