PHA-Exch> WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health - Final reports of the Knowledge Networks

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org



*Final reports and additional documents of the Knowledge Networks*

*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…."

*Website:**
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/knowledge_networks/en/index.html *

*Reports submitted to the Commission as well as additional documents
prepared by them:

**Early Child Development
*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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/ecd_kn_report_07_2007.pdf>

Evidence Report: Total Environment Assessment Model for Early Child
Development <http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2007/a91144.pdf>

*Globalisation
*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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/globlalization_kn_07_2007.pdf>

*Health Systems
*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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/csdh_media/hskn_final_2007_en.pdf>

*Urban Settings
*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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/knus_report_16jul07.pdf>

Appendices [pdf
1.40Mb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/knowledge_networks/final_reports/knus_report_appendices.pdf>

*Employment Conditions
*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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/articles/emconet_who_report.pdf>

*Women and Gender Equity
**The** *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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/csdh_media/wgekn_final_report_07.pdf>

*Measurement and Evidence
*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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/mekn_report_10oct07.pdf>

Guide to constructing the evidence base on Social Determinants of
Health<http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2007/a91145.pdf>

 *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]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/sekn_scoping.pdf>

 *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.**

*Scoping paper** -*Priority Public Health Conditions scoping paper [pdf
881kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/resources/pphc_scoping_paper.pdf>
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