Module: Health Inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health

Week 11- Seminar Only

This week’s seminar will be based on a general review and critique of the report by the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Specifically, it will discuss the report in light of the following commentaries about the CSDH report.

Compulsory Readings

  • Gruskin S, Mills EJ and Tarantola D, 2008. History, principles, and practice of health and human rights. Lancet 2007; 370: 449–55 (read it here)
  • José Carlos Escudero. What is Said, What is Silenced, What is Obscured: The Report of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health Social Medicine; Volume 4, - 183 - Number 3, September 2009  (read it here)
  • Anne-Emanuelle Birn. Making it Politic(al): Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health Social Medicine Volume 4, - Number 3, September 2009. (read it here)
  • The Economist, 2008. Global health: The price of being well (read it here)
  • Forde I and Raine R, 2009. Placing the individual within a social determinants approach to health inequity. Lancet 2008; 372: 1694–96 (read it here)