LET’S TALK DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH - LET’S TALK

2 LET’S TALK: DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH REFLECTING ON THE CAUSES OF HEALTH INEQUITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ACTION A tree image and metaphor has long been used as Through a reflective exercise, public health an effective way to depict and reflect on the root practitioners discuss and identify the following, causes of health and health inequities. [...] to the current public health context, the NCCDH is choosing to name the forces and systems that drive health inequity in our description of the structural “Since the social determinants of health determinants (below). [...] positions [that] affect health within different political systems and cultures and at different The commercial determinants of health are “the levels of governance.”43(p1) This broad description systems, practices, and pathways through which invokes many of the same concepts as the commercial actors drive health and equity.” 46(p1195) The structural determinants of health as described commercial d. [...] determinants of health can be thought of as a doi:10.1093/heapro/dah608 For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org Advance access publication 18 February 2005 “Recent acknowledgements of Towards a politics of health CLARE BAMBRA1, DEBBIE FOX2 and ALEX SCOTT-SAMUEL2 the importance of the social subset of the structural determinants of health. [...] 1Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK and 2Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK SUMMARY The importance of public policy as a determinant of health reasons behind the absence of a politics of health and is routinely acknowledged, but there remains a continuing demonstrates how explicit acknowledgement of the political a.