WHO responds to findings of UCL-led commission with landmark resolution

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed a landmark resolution in response to the final report of the UCL-led Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH). Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. They are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices. These determinants are responsible for health inequities - the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries. Responding to increasing concern about widening inequities, WHO established the CSDH in 2005 to provide advice on how to reduce them. The commission was chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health). Its final report, published in August 2008, contained three overarching recommendations:    Improve daily living conditions.
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