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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=ruglucia@PAHO.ORG
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
Commission on Social Determinants of Health: Tackling the Social Roots of Health
Inequities<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=#333399
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>Alec Irwin,
Nicole Valentine, Chris Brown, Rene Loewenson, Orielle Solar, Hilary Brown,
Theadora Koller, Jeanette Vega<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PLoS
Medicine | <A href="http://www.plosmedicine.org"><FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">www.plosmedicine.org</SPAN></FONT></A> June 2006 | Volume
3 | Issue 6 | e106<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online at:
<A href="http://tinyurl.com/roxq9"><FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">http://tinyurl.com/roxq9</SPAN></FONT></A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PDF
available online at: <A
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style="COLOR: #333399">http://www.plos.org/press/plme-03-06-irwin.pdf</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
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size=2><SPAN
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“…..The
CSDH was launched in March 2005 in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Chile</st1:country-region> and has held subsequent meetings in
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Commissioners will next meet in June 2006, in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kenya</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Currently, knowledge networks have begun their operations, and joint work plans
are being developed with a lead group of partner countries. <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region>, for example, has launched its own
national commission on social determinants, which will work closely with the
global CSDH to stimulate uptake of SDH policies nationally, across the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region>, and in the
Portuguese-speaking countries of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>.
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title=http://www.determinantes.fiocruz.br/
href="http://www.determinantes.fiocruz.br/"><FONT
title=http://www.determinantes.fiocruz.br/ color=#333399><SPAN
title=http://www.determinantes.fiocruz.br/><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">http://www.determinantes.fiocruz.br/</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></A>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> A
WHO reference group appointed by the director-general has begun to develop
sustainable strategies to incorporate SDH perspectives into WHO policies and
programs. When reduced to their most fundamental formulation, scientific claims
on social determinants often seem to be common sense. One hardly needs
sophisticated epidemiological models to see that it is inefficient to treat
children for diarrhea or respiratory ailments, and then send them back to
slum-like living conditions that virtually guarantee new bouts of infection. But
translating such common sense into public policy has proven difficult in many
settings. The CSDH seeks to understand the reasons for this failure and to learn
from cases where action on SDH has worked. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en"><FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">http:/www.who.int/social_determinants/en
</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#333399><SPAN
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