WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH)
“….To supports countries and global health partners to address the social factors leading to ill health and inequities. It draws the attention of society to the social determinants of health that are known to be among the worst causes of poor health and inequalities between and within countries….”
Well established evidence illustrates that opportunities provided to young children are crucial in shaping lifelong health and development status.
Final report of the Early Child Development Knowledge Network [pdf 7.63Mb]
Evidence Report: Total Environment Assessment Model for Early Child Development
The scope is to examine how globalization’s dynamics and processes affect health outcomes: trade liberalization, integration of production of goods.
Final report of the Globalisation Knowledge Network [pdf 1.38Mb]
The focus will be on innovative approaches that effectively incorporate action on social determinants of health.
Final report of the Health Systems Knowledge Networks [pdf 1.19Mb]
The focus will be on urbanizations, particularly broad policy interventions related to healthy urbanization, and will closely examine slum upgrading.
Final report of the Urban Settings Knowledge Network [pdf 786kb]
Appendices [pdf 1.40Mb]
It will help to develop measures to clarify how different types of jobs, threat of unemployment affect workers’ health.
Final report of the Employment Conditions Knowledge Network [pdf 1.30Mb]
focus is on mechanisms, processes and actions that can be taken to reduce gender-based inequities in health by examining different areas.
Final report of the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network [pdf 753kb]
The focus is on leading the development of methodologies and tools for measuring the causes, pathways and health outcomes of policy interventions
Final report of the Measurement and Evidence Knowledge Network [pdf 618kb]
Guide to constructing the evidence base on Social Determinants of Health
Social Exclusion Knowledge Network
It will examine the relational processes that lead to the exclusion of particular groups of people from engaging fully in community, social life.
Scoping paper: SEKN scoping paper [pdf 193kb]
Priority Public Health Conditions Knowledge Network
It will review factors in the design and implementation of programs that increase access to health care for socially and economically disadvantaged groups.
Priority Public Health Conditions scoping paper [pdf 881kb]
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