The need to monitor actions on the social determinants of health
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a Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. b Health Section, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York, NY 10017, United States of America (USA). c Department of Informatics, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. d Department of Social Determinants of Health, Norwegian Directorate of Health, Oslo, Norway. e Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA. f National Health Commission Office, Nonthaburi, Thailand. g Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Correspondence to Frank Pega (email: [email protected]). (Submitted: 31 August 2016 – Revised version received: 22 June 2017 – Accepted: 25 June 2017 – Published online: 12 September 2017) Intersectoral actions, defined as the alignment of strategies and resources between actors from two or more policy sectors to achieve complementary objectives, 1 are central to the health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs). 2 The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health recommended a subset of intersectoral actions to improve health equity in 2008. 3 These actions address the social, commercial, cultural, economic, environmental and political determinants of health. Without these actions, the health sector will probably not achieve SDG 3, that is, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. 4
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