TY - JOUR
KW - Health Care Reform
KW - Health Status Disparities
KW - Humans
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Public Policy
KW - Social Class
AU - K. Rasanathan
AU - E. V. Montesinos
AU - D. Matheson
AU - C. Etienne
AU - T. Evans
A1 - 
AB - Increasing focus on health inequities has brought renewed attention to two related policy discourses - primary health care and the social determinants of health. Both prioritise health equity and also promote a broad view of health, multisectoral action and the participation of empowered communities. Differences arise in the lens each applies to the health sector, with resultant tensions around their mutual ability to reform health systems and address the social determinants. However, pitting them against each is unproductive. Health services that do not consciously address social determinants exacerbate health inequities. If a revitalised primary health care is to be the key approach to organise society to minimise health inequities, action on social determinants has to be a major constituent strategy. Success in reducing health inequities will require ensuring that the broad focus of primary health care and the social determinants is kept foremost in policy - instead of the common historical experience of efforts being limited to a part of the health sector.
BT - Journal of epidemiology and community health
C5 - Healthcare Disparities; Healthcare Policy
CP - 8
CY - England
DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.093914
IS - 8
JF - Journal of epidemiology and community health
N2 - Increasing focus on health inequities has brought renewed attention to two related policy discourses - primary health care and the social determinants of health. Both prioritise health equity and also promote a broad view of health, multisectoral action and the participation of empowered communities. Differences arise in the lens each applies to the health sector, with resultant tensions around their mutual ability to reform health systems and address the social determinants. However, pitting them against each is unproductive. Health services that do not consciously address social determinants exacerbate health inequities. If a revitalised primary health care is to be the key approach to organise society to minimise health inequities, action on social determinants has to be a major constituent strategy. Success in reducing health inequities will require ensuring that the broad focus of primary health care and the social determinants is kept foremost in policy - instead of the common historical experience of efforts being limited to a part of the health sector.
PP - England
PY - 2011
SN - 1470-2738; 0143-005X
SP - 656
EP - 660
EP - 
T1 - Primary health care and the social determinants of health: essential and complementary approaches for reducing inequities in health
T2 - Journal of epidemiology and community health
TI - Primary health care and the social determinants of health: essential and complementary approaches for reducing inequities in health
U1 - Healthcare Disparities; Healthcare Policy
U2 - 19933684
U3 - 10.1136/jech.2009.093914
VL - 65
VO - 1470-2738; 0143-005X
Y1 - 2011
ER -