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Revista de Salud Pública

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GARCIA-RAMIREZ, Jorge A  and  VELEZ-ALVAREZ, Consuelo. Latin-American public policy regarding social determinants of health. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2013, vol.15, n.5, pp.731-742. ISSN 0124-0064.

ABSTRACT The study was aimed at identifying Latin-American countries’ public policy which has been related to the social determinants of health. A topic review was thus made of papers kept in the 22 Latin-American countries’ databases and official documents issued by their multilateral organisations and ministries of health. The World Health Organization’s concept of the social determinants of health has been summarised and a history given of the pertinent work developed worldwide in regions such as Europe and Latin-America. Public policy regarding the field of study in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México and Venezuela has been described. It was concluded that Latin-America provides a panorama of inequality regarding the application of policy concerning the social determinants of health and that there was segmented intervention, mainly regarding intermediate determinants of health, without taking an integrated approach from different entrance points into account, according to the stated conceptual framework.

Keywords : Latin-America; healthcare disparity; health policy; public health; social justice.

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