PHM-Exch> Social Determinants of Health: a Rio recap

[Claudio Schuftan]

November Blog

The conference was billed as the way to advance the cause of *Closing The
Gap in a Generation* (1), the report of the *WHO Commission on the Social
Determinants of Health. *Cynics had a feeling that it would be nothing of
the kind, and once again, the facts supported cynicism, I am sorry to say.
Preparations for the conference turned out to be a case study of what is
now amounting to a kind of ‘war of the words’. This is being fought between
all those in the UN system and member states who believe in public health
and public goods, and those who remain committed to ‘business as usual’ at
the time when the world’s financial institutions and banks are collapsing
under the weight of their own greed.


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Claudio
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