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Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Closing the gap in a generation – the final report by the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health – has been released.

The Commission on Social Determinants of Health was tasked to collect, collate, and synthesise global evidence on the social determinants of health and their impact on health inequity, and to make recommendations for action to address that inequity.

• Closing the gap in a generation ( 7.2Mb).
• WHO report confirms importance of social factors on health
  PHA media release 28 August 2008 ( 27Kb)
• Key messages from the report ( 169Kb)
• Extracts on the implications for children ( 163Kb)