La revolución de los determinantes sociales de la salud

Abstract

Empirical research on social determinants of health conducted in recent years has unveiled the existence of non-medical social elements that significantly affect people?s health. They are also responsible for avoidable and unfair differences in health status among and within countries. The right to health, understood as the right to the highest attainable standard of health, must be reconsidered from the social determinants of health perspective, especially to reduce inequality in health. Health inequalities raise a series of challenges that should be faced through cooperation between ethics and epidemiology, to establish criteria to reduce them.