Objectives

- Become familiar with the rationale of the social determinants of health (SDH) and their potential for designing public policies, taking WHO and PAHO work proposals into consideration; - Identify the principles of social justice, health equity, human rights and their relationship as key values for SDH interventions; - Identify structural and intermediary mechanisms underlying health inequities in population groups and territories, as a basis for public policy actions; - Recognize the need for a comprehensive, intersectoral and participatory approach towards understanding and taking actions on SDH.

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The unit one this course "Global learning device on social determinants of health and public policy formulation" is propose to presents: introduction to the Social Determinants of Health approach; equity, social justice, and human rights in health; relationship between them; approaches for disclosing health inequities across population groups and territories; mechanisms that cause the persistence of inequity, to deal with social determinants of health; and an integrated, intersectoral and participatory approach to SDH.

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