Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes

摘要: Health is a universal human aspiration and basic need. The development of society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality its population’s health, how fairly health distributed across social spectrum, degree protection provided from disadvantage due to ill-health. equity central this premise work Commission on Social Determinants Health. Strengthening equity—globally within countries—means going beyond contemporary concentration immediate causes disease. More than any other global endeavour, focuses “causes causes”—the fundamental structures hierarchy socially determined conditions these create in which people grow, live, work, age. time for action now, not just because better makes economic sense, but it right just. outcry against inequity has been intensifying many years country around world. These cries are forming movement. places ensure fair at head heart that