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><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">Update
on New Tool being Developed on Social Determinants of Health <br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">ACTION:SDH</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB"> at: <a href="http://www.actionsdh.org" title="http://www.actionsdh.org/" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">www.actionsdh.org</span></font></a>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">This tool is being
brought to the public health community by the World Health Organization with
the aim of providing public health, and other practitioners on the social determinants
of health, with a one-stop portal, it was launched at the World Conference on
Social Determinants of Health in October 2011.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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ACTION:SDH houses knowledge on the social determinants according to the five
action areas of the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health
that was ratified by the 65th World Health Assembly (WHR 65.8) in May 2012. <br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">During the first half of
2012, several contributors have strengthened the content of the ACTION:SDH
portal through adding web pages on implementation (e.g. legislation in Norway),
describing tools used (e.g. Government of Québec), and organizing discussion
forums (e.g. current forums sponsored by the Government of Québec, Canada,
focus on the upcoming 12^th International Conference on Health Impact
Assessment). Public health practitioners are encouraged to visit the web site
and to share experiences of how to address health determinants and to promote
health equity. <br>
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World Health </span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Organization WHO<br>
<font color="black"><span style>Geneva</span></font><font color="black"><span style> Switzerland</span></font> </span></font><br></p></div></div></div><br>