Interim Statement of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health 2007

The Interim Statement sets out the Commission’s vision and goals, the problems it seeks to ameliorate, and the intellectual foundation for a social determinants approach. In doing so, the Interim Statement is a resource for stakeholders concerned with social determinants of health and health equity, as they build towards a global movement. Recommendations for action, based on the evidence gathered across all the Commission’s work streams, will be made in the Final Report to be published later this year.

• Download the full statement - English [pdf 801kb]
• Spanish [pdf 1278kb]
• Arabic [pdf 4.5Mb]
• Portuguese [pdf 572kb]

Download the chapters

• Introduction
  pdf, 105kb
  Preface, about the Commission, the Commissioners.
• Health inequality, inequity, and social determinants of health
  pdf, 164kb
  Global health improvements but still major inequalities between countries; health inequalities within countries and the social gradient; justice, inequality and inequity; empowerment and freedom - dealing with poverty and the gradient.
• Social determinants of health and health equity: "the causes of the causes"
  pdf, 317kb
  Growing, living and working; contextualising behaviour; health systems; the shape of society; the social context; the global arena.
• The time for action
  pdf, 27kb
• Annex: The CSDH multipronged approach
  pdf, 113kb
  The goals, commissioners, knowledge networks, additional key issues, country work streams, civil society organizations, global initiatives, working with WHO.
• References
  pdf, 56kb