Publications

Reports

• Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health
• Center for American Progress - Report on Childhood Poverty
  
• Tackling Health Inequalities: A Programme for Action
• World Health Organization - Social Determinants Themes

Recent Articles

• Ackerson, L.K. & Viswanath, K. (2009) Communication Inequalities, Social Determinants, and Intermittent Smoking in the 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey. Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy; 6(2).

Background Reading

• Banks, J. & Marmot M. (2006) Oldfield Z, Smith JP. Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England. JAMA. 295(17): 2037-2045
• Evans, R., Barer, M. & Marmor ,T. (1994) Why are some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
• Institute of Medicine. (2006) Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Washington, D. C.: The National Academy Press.
• Marmot, M. (2005) Social Determinants of Health Inequalities. The Lancet; 365: 1099-1104.
• Marmot, M. & Wilkinson, R. (eds). (1999) Social Determinants of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Raphael, D. (2004) Introduction. In D Raphael (Ed.), Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press.
• Wilcox, L. (2007) (ed.) Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy, 4(4).

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