In What Way Can Primary Care Contribute to Reducing Health Inequalities?
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S ocial inequalities in health are to be found in all European countries (Mackenbach et al., 2008; van Dooslaer et al., 2004). Following a report from the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health (WHO, 2008), health inequalities were recognised as a major public health issue. Reducing these inequalities has thus become a stated political objective in numerous European countries (Jusot, 2010) including France where the issue became part of the political agenda following a report published by the French High Council for Public Health (HCSP, 2009).
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تاریخ انتشار 2012