Erik Blas

TL;DR: Evidence synthesised by nine knowledge networks established by WHO to support the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health is selected and reviewed to illustrate some of the options governments have in fulfilling this role.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the reversed direction of the HIV epidemic in Uganda was the direct result of these interventions and that other countries in the developing world could similarly prevent or reverse the escalation of HIV epidemics with greater availability of HIV prevention resources, and well designed programs that take efforts to a critical breadth and depth of effort.

TL;DR: An extensive literature review on the overlap between healthy aging and health equity was conducted, privileging publications from 2005 onward, from low-, middle-, and high-income countries.

TL;DR: The main lessons are: utilization patterns can be influenced by policies such as user-payment and decentralization; user payment in poor populations leads to dramatic declines in utilization of services; and decentralized with local control of resources could be an alternative to the traditional vertical disease programme approach for priority interventions.

TL;DR: Recommendations are to restructure the reform's public health component, strengthen the technical capacity in public health of the state, mainly at the local and departmental levels, and to improve the health information system by reorienting its objectives to public health goals.