The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

prioritizing women's health helps achievement of the 4(th) and 5(th) goals of millennium development program. this study aimed to investigate association between social determinants of health and women's health of reproductive age.this population-based cross-sectional study, using multi-stage sampling procedure was conducted on 770, 15 to 49-year-old women residing in any one of the 22 municipa...

Meeting Report More than 300 people from across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) attended the 2011 National Center for HIV/AIDs, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) Health Equity Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 3, 2011. (See Appendix 1 for the symposium agenda.) The goal of the Symposium was to strengthen CDC’s leadership role in advancing health equit...

Background Indonesia is a country with great disparities, geographically, demographically, and economically. The implementation of decentralisation had a tremendous impact on the national health system. Since the effective development and implementation of all policies depended on the capability of the heads of districts, these conditions influenced the health of the Indonesian people. In addit...

BACKGROUND Health is a complex phenomenon that can be studied from different approaches. Despite a growing research in the areas of Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and health equity, effects of macroeconomic policies on the social aspect of health are unknown in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the effect of macroeconomic policies on increasing of the social-health inequa...