PHA-Exch> Reducing health inequities through action on the social determinants of health (2)

[Claudio Schuftan]

On 2/5/09, Garance UPHAM <fannie.upham at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In the course of EB discussion on the social determinants and the preceding
> Monday morning discussion on the impact of the financial crisis on health,
> we all heard  a member of the US delegation publicly say that the new Obama
> Administration would consider the holding of a national US commission on the
> social determinants of health and may envision the organization of a global
> conference on the Commission on the social determinants of health.
> It is to be noted that several LMIC countries, generally at odds with the
> (up to now very intransigent) US delegation position on IP, Code of practice
> for migrating health personnel, and so forth, are demonstrating global
> leadership in health on this issue, by having organized their own National
> commission on the social determinants...
> We must encourage President Obama on this path.
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