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Sebastian Taylor
Researcher at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Publications - 23
Citations - 7879
Sebastian Taylor is an academic researcher from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social determinants of health & Public health. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications receiving 7254 citations. Previous affiliations of Sebastian Taylor include University of East Anglia & University College London.
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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Changes Not for the Fainthearted: Reorienting Health Care Systems Toward Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health
TL;DR: Actors in the health care sector must recognize and reverse the sector's propensity to generate health inequity and strengthen its role in working with other sectors of government to act collectively on the deep-rooted causes of poor and inequitable health.
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'Global health': meaning what?
TL;DR: ‘Global health’ is emerging as an increasingly widely invoked and powerful discursive construct, but the precise dimensions of the idea remain unclear and an emergent global health paradigm should be characterised by potentially fierce contest.
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Global Health Governance: Commission on Social Determinants of Health and the Imperative for Change
TL;DR: The evolving nature of global health and the Commission's foundational inspiration--the universal pattern of health inequity and the imperative, driven by a sense of social justice, to make better and more equal health a global goal are examined.
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Political epidemiology: strengthening socio-political analysis for mass immunisation - lessons from the smallpox and polio programmes.
TL;DR: A comparison of the smallpox and polio eradication programmes illustrates the importance of disease-specific socio-political analysis in programme conceptualisation, design, and management.