Policy approaches to reducing health inequalities / : Approches politiques de réduction des inégalités de santé

To address these Our goal is to clarify how the different broad inequalities, the relationships between the approaches to addressing inequalities are determinants of health and the health of the grounded theoretically and how they affect population have been brought to the fore so as to inequalities differently. [...] Social determinants of health inequalities of health Figure 1 Social Determinants of health and of health inequalities Source: Adapted from the conceptual framework of the CSDH WHO, 2008. [...] The blurring of this distinction can be distribution of the social determinants of health and misleading for policy, and feed the policy assumption that these determinants are in turn shaped by a that health inequalities can be diminished by policies wider set of forces: economics, social policies and that focus only on the social determinants of health” politics, notably (CSDH WHO, 2008). [...] In summary It has been argued that the use of the same term, “social determinants of health” to identify and tackle “The social determinants of health are the both the social determinants of health inequalities, circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, and the social determinants of health often conflates work and age, and the systems put in place to deal with how the two operate (Gr [...] One of the main reasons reducing health inequalities to highlight the links that for this lies in how the social determinants of health exist between broad approaches and likely outcomes operate differently from the social determinants of related to inequality.