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[Social cohesion as a basis for health-equity- oriented public policies: reflections from the EUROsociAL program]
1Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italia, rita.ferrelli@iss.it.
Abstract:
EUROsociAL is a European Union program for social cohesion in Latin America. The main objective of this essay is to present the conceptual elements underpinning the activities of the EUROsociAL program in the health thematic area, with special attention to their equity aspects. It considers the concepts of social cohesion, equity in health, and the relationship between the two in EUROsociAL, and addresses monitoring of equity in health as a basis of action toward improvement focusing on social determinants of health.
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