REPORT ON THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ... - bvsde

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION:................................................................................................................3
2. PRESENTATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS THAT RESPONDED TO
THE QUESTIONNAIRE ...................................................................................................... 5
3. QUESTIONS......................................................................................................................... 8
a. QUESTION 1: Does your entity or social movement work consistently to guarantee the
right to health? ................................................................................................................8
b. QUESTION 2: Taking the above text as a reference, do you consider that your institution
agrees that there are social determinants of health? This question also asks the civil
society organizations what they think of the notion of Social Determinants of Health, in
light of their experience and approaches......................................................................... 9
c. QUESTION 3: Do you have data and evidence of health-related inequalities in the course
of your institution’s work?............................................................................................ 11
d. QUESTION 4: What is your institution doing to reduce inequalities or inequities in
health? ........................................................................................................................... 15
e. QUESTION 5: Do you consider that the establishment of the Commission on Social
Determinants of Health can boost your efforts to achieve the right to health? ............. 17
f. QUESTION 6: What are your institution’s top priorities in terms of actions and practices
to reduce inequalities in health?.................................................................................... 19
g. QUESTION 7: In the political and social circumstances surrounding your organization’s
work, can you envisage a form of social participation in health based on decisionmaking,
accountability, and the empowerment of social actors that could really have an
impact on the SDH and guarantee the right to health?.................................................. 20
h. QUESTION 8: How do you feel globalization affects inequities in health? And what
suggestions do you have for promoting a common agenda in the Americas to have an
impact on the SDH, secure the right to health, and put an end to inequities in health? 21
4. ANNEXES
4A. QUESTIONNAIRES
SPANISH QUESTIONNAIRE……………………….…………..……………..….....25
ENGLISH QUESTIONNAIRE………………………………..…………………...….30
PORTUGUESE QUESTIONNAIRE…………………..…………………….………..35
4B. CIVIL SOCIETY CONTRIBUTIONS IN THEIR ORIGINAL TEXT FORM………40
3. QUESTIONS.......................................................................................................................11
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