[EQ] European review of social determinants of health

European review of social determinants of health

Interim second report on social determinants of health and the health divide in the European Region
WHO - EUR/RC61/Inf.Doc./5

Drafted by a team based at University College London and led by Sir Michael Marmot – 2011

Available online PDF [75p.] at: http://bit.ly/qwzKh0

“……This interim second report sets out the approaches to tackling health inequities that have emerged from the work undertaken since WHO published the Interim first report on social determinants of health and the health divide in the WHO European Region in September 2010 as part of the review. This report further describes some of the Region’s inequalities that were set out in the first report.

Key developments reported are:

• the review’s conceptual approach to the causes of health inequities and the policies and processes required to tackle these;
• analysis of recent time trends in the WHO European Region;
• identification of the key themes and issues that have emerged from the work of topic specific and cross-cutting task groups
  so far and that will underpin the formulation of recommendations to be made by the review;
• emerging thinking on the role WHO, health ministers and other important actors can play in promoting health equity for
  current and future generations by promoting fairer and more sustainable societies; and
• how the review fits into wider global action on the social determinants of health and the new European policy for health – Health 2020….”

Contents

Executive summary

1. Overview

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Scope of the review

1.3 The policy context

2. Health and its social determinants in the WHO European Region

2.1 Health and inequalities in Europe

2.2 Trends

2.3 Social gradient within countries

2.4 Conceptual framework

2.5 Applying the framework to understand the time trends in the WHO European Region

3. European review of the social determinants of health and the health divide

3.1 Structure of the review and the approach to be taken

3.2 Task groups

3.3 Activities

3.3.1 Promising practices and country experiences

3.3.2 Consultation

3.3.3 Examination of future trends in inequalities in health

4. Emerging themes

4.1 Emerging thinking on themes

4.2 Thematic areas and issues

4.2.1 Key concepts

4.2.2 Organizations and governance

4.2.3 Interventions and policies

4.2.4 Wider agendas

4.2.5 Economic issues

References

Annex 1. Key messages reported in phase 1 of the review

Annex 2. Review of systems, processes and contexts affecting action on the social determinants of health
Annex 3. Summaries of the interim reports of the task groups

First interim report on the European review of social determinants of health and the health divide

Report on the new health policy framework for the WHO European Region (Health 2020)

 

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