[EQ] Who, and what, causes health inequities?

Editorial:

Who, and what, causes health inequities?
Reflections on emerging debates from an exploratory Latin American/North American workshop

Nancy Krieger1, Margarita Alegría2, Naomar Almeida-Filho3, Jarbas Barbosa da Silva 4, Maurício L Barreto5, Jason Beckfield 6, Lisa Berkman7, Anne-Emanuelle Birn8, Bruce B Duncan9, Saul Franco10, Dolores Acevedo Garcia11, Sofia Gruskin12, Sherman A James13, Asa Christina Laurell14, Maria Inês Schmidt15, Karina L Walters16

Website: http://bit.ly/bOEiKj

Published Online First 27 June 2010 - J Epidemiol Community Health doi:10.1136/jech.2009.106906

 

“………….Rapidly rising interest - from national and international health organisations, governments, civil society, the private sector and myriad academic disciplines - in what has become known as the ‘social determinants of health’1 2 is welcome to the many, in and outside of public health, who have long held that issues of social justice and the public's health are inextricably linked (box 1).2 3 As inevitably happens, however, when an issue gets ‘mainstreamed’, a multiplicity of disparate voices enter the discussion, informed by not only different disciplinary vantages, but also divergent values, priorities and politics….”

1 Department of Society, Human, Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical, School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

3 Universidade Federal Da, Bahia (UFBA) and Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Instituto De Saude, Coletiva, UFBA, Bahia, Brazil

4 Health Surveillance and Disease Management, Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO, Washington, DC, USA

5 Department of Epidemiology, Universidade, Federal da Bahia Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Salvador, Brazil

6 Department of Sociology, Harvard, University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

7 Harvard Center for Population Studies and Development, Harvard University,  and Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

8 Department of International Development, Studies and Canada Research Chair in International Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

9 Department of Social Medicine, Graduate, Studies Program in Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio, Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

10 Doctorado Interfacultades en Salud Pública, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogatá, Colombia

11 Department of Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

12 Department of Global Health and Population; Director, Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

13 Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

14 Department of Health of the Legitimate Government of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

15 Department of Social Medicine, Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Federal, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

16 William P. and Ruth Gerberding University, Professorship, University of Washington, School of Social Work, Indigenous, Wellness Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA

 

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