Description

The European Office of the WHO is commissioning a European Review on the Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide. The Review will be conducted by a Consortium of experts/institutions chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

The purpose of the review will be to identify the revelance of the findings of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010 (Marmot Review), and other new evidence to the European context and specificity and translate these into policy proposals.

It will feed into the development of a renewed European Regional Health Policy and contribute to specific aspects of the policy especially where it relates to the social determinants of health.

What's Happening

New inequalities data

Baseline figures for key indicators of the social determinants of health, health outcomes and social inequality by local authority in England published today.

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European Review

The WHO EURO has commissioned Professor Marmot to conduct a two-year European Review of social determinants and the health divide across Europe.

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One Year On

February 11th marks the first anniversary of the publication of the Marmot Review - to mark this the team are running and participating in a number of events,

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