Synthesis report: Health equity through intersectoral action: An analysis of 18 country case studies
Author(s)/Editor(s): World Health Organization and the Public Health Agency of Canada
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 52
Language: English
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Overview
This Report is part of the multi-phase collaborative initiative between WHO and PHAC, to increase knowledge and application of effective intersectoral approaches (ISA). This initiative served to inform the report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, released on 28 August 2008.
The report presents key lessons from 18 case studies commissioned under this initiative from high, middle and low-income countries:
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- India
- Iran
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Sri Lanka
- Uganda