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Health and Medicine
Research from E. Blas and co-authors provides new data about health and medicine
December 27th, 2008
"In this Health Policy article, we selected and reviewed evidence synthesised by nine knowledge networks established by WHO to support the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. We have indicated the part that national governments and civil society can play in reducing health inequity," scientists writing in the journal Lancet report. "Government action can take three forms: (1) as provider or guarantor of human rights and essential services; (2) as facilitator of policy frameworks that provide the basis for equitable health improvement; and (3) as gatherer and monitor of data about their populations in ways that generate health information about...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-12-27)
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