Breaking through the Social Determinants of Health

• Beyond the rainbow: reflections on European experiences to tackle the social determinants of inequalities in health

Professor Margaret Whitehead, W.H. Duncan Chair of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liverpool, U.K.; Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on the Social Determinants of Health

• The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health: Implications for Cross Government Action

Professor Fran Baum, Commissioner, WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health; Head of Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders Medical Centre

Further information on the WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health can be found at www.who.int/social_determinants/en.

• Data on monitoring and describing social inequality and its impact on the health of population groups (PHIDU website www.publichealth.gov.au)

John Glover, Director of the Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) at the University of Adelaide