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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crosposte from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Reducing health inequities through action on the social determinants of health</span></font></b></p>


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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHO 124th Session EB124.R6 - Agenda item 4.6 -  23 January 2009</span></font></b></p>


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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHO  Executive Board, Having considered the Secretariat's report on the final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health,1 <br>

RECOMMENDS to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly the adoption of the following resolution:</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Spanish: <a href="http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-sp.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-sp.pdf</span></font></a> <br>

<br>English: <a href="http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-en.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-en.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>


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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">            French: <a href="http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-fr.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_R6-fr.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>


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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"ЕЕЕConfirming the importance of addressing the wider determinants of health and considering the actions and recommendations set out in the series of international health promotion conferences, from the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion to the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World making the promotion of health central to the global development agenda as a core responsibility of all governments (resolution WHA60.24);</span></font></p>


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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"ЕЕ..URGES Member States:</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(1) to develop and implement goals and strategies to improve public health with a focus on health inequities;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(2) to take into account health equity in all national policies that address social determinants of health and to ensure equitable access to health promotion, disease prevention and health care;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(3) to ensure dialogue and cooperation among relevant sectors with the aim of integrating a consideration of health into relevant public policies;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(4) to increase awareness among public and private health providers on how to take account of social determinants when delivering care to their patients;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(5) to contribute to the improvement of the daily living conditions contributing to health and social well-being across the lifespan by involving all relevant partners, including civil society and the private sector;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(6) to contribute to the empowerment of individuals and groups, especially those who are marginalized, and take steps to improve the societal conditions that affect their health;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(7) to generate new, or make use of existing, methods and evidence, tailored to national contexts in order to address the social determinants and social gradients of health and health inequities;</span></font></p>


<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(8) to develop, make use of, and if necessary, improve health information systems in order to monitor and measure the health of national populations, with data disaggregated according to the major social determinants in each context (such as age, gender, ethnicity, education, employment and socioeconomic status) so that health inequities can be detected and the impact of policies monitored in order to devise appropriate policy interventions to minimize health inequities  ЕЕ.."</span></font></p>


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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Eugenio Villar, Coordinator <br>

Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights (ETH) <br>Information Evidence and Research (IER) World Health Organization <br></span></font></p></div></div></div>