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

Organizations whose priority policies and strategies seek to increase opportunities as a means of
reducing poverty stressed the need to include the establishment of a system of social guarantees,
such as the right to health.
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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 decision-making,
accountability, and the empowerment of social actors that could really have an impact on the
SDH and guarantee the right to health?
The civil society organizations were also invited to elaborate on their replies with additional
comments.
TABLE 11:
In the political and social circumstances in which
your organization works, can it really have impact
on the SDH and guarantee the right to health?
2
(3%) Yes
1
(2%)
5
(7%)
60
(88%)
No
Both
Don’t know
Considering the political and social circumstances surrounding the organizations’ work, eightyeight
percent (88%) said it is possible for them to have some form of social participation to have
an impact on the SDH and guarantee the right to health, but most of the organizations said that in
order to successfully accomplish this certain basic factors must be in place.
Among the factors mentioned by civil society, the one most frequently mentioned as crucial for
impacting the SDH and guaranteeing the right to health is the empowerment of social actors, such
as NGOs, social and political leaders, and other organizations so that government and the
community acknowledge the right to universal health care, work toward the same end, and adopt
public policies aimed at guaranteeing this right. Other basic factors they suggested were:
a. Strengthening and focusing on basic rights
b. Strengthening of NGOs or other social leaders at the public or private level to oversee the
authorities
c. Generation of adequate knowledge to guarantee that all persons are equally and
effectively empowered
d. Encourage lasting political will
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