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Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health
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The social determinants of health (SDH) represent the next frontier for reducing health inequalities, a point reinforced by the work of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health.About:
This article is published in Health Policy.The article was published on 2011-06-01. It has received 147 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social determinants of health & Health policy.read more
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Health systems in transition.
G Khodjamurodov,B Rechel +1 more
TL;DR: The focus of future developments in health should be towards providing universal health care for Filipinos, starting with improving access of the poor and vulnerable to health services.
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Why Behavioural Health Promotion Endures Despite Its Failure to Reduce Health Inequities
Fran Baum,Matthew Fisher +1 more
TL;DR: The article identifies several reasons why behavioural forms of health promotion are inadequate for addressing social inequities in health and point to a dilemma that, despite these inadequacies and increasing evidence of the social determinants of health, behavioural approaches and policies have strong appeal to governments.
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Canada's universal health-care system: achieving its potential.
Danielle Martin,Danielle Martin,Ashley P. Miller,Amélie Quesnel-Vallée,Nadine R. Caron,Bilkis Vissandjée,Gregory P. Marchildon,Gregory P. Marchildon +7 more
TL;DR: In the setting of geographical and population diversity, long waits for elective care demand the capacity and commitment to scale up effective and sustainable models of care delivery across the country, which will hinge on more engaged roles for the federal government and the physician community than have existed in previous decades.
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A commentary on "Achieving Health for All: a Framework for Health Promotion".
TL;DR: The strengths and limitations of the framework are reviewed and its use in conjunction with the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is suggested, which was released in November, 1986.
Canada: health system review
TL;DR: The medicare system has been effective in providing Canadians with financial protection against hospital and physician costs, however, the narrow scope of services covered under medicare has produced important gaps in coverage and equitable access, which may be a challenge in these areas.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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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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Policy paradigms, social learning, and the state: the case of economic policymaking in Britain
TL;DR: The authors examined the role of ideas in policy making, based on the concept of policy paradigms, and found that a conventional model of social learning fit some types of changes in policy well but not the movement from Keynesian to monetarist modes of policymaking.
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Social foundations of postindustrial economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of welfare regimes for a post-industrial era, including Wefare Regimes for a Post-Industrial Era Bibliography and the Structural Bases of Postindustrial Employment.
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
TL;DR: The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa, Canada in November 1986 and aimed for action to achieve 'Health for all' by the year 2000 and beyond.