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Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 1, 87-89, March 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000

Resource Reviews

Social Determinants of Health

Michael Marmot and Richard Wilkinson Oxford University Press, 1999

Jane Dixon

Coordinator, Health Inequalities Research Collaboration, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia, E-mail: jane.dixon@anu.edu.au There is a renewed interest within public health circles in the contribution made by social and economic factors to health, reflecting the strength of the evidence base which now exists in this area. As part of a recent campaign to encourage wider recognition and action on these factors, the Centre for Urban Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, requested the International Centre for Health and Society, based at University College, London, to summarize the growing evidence on the social determinants of health as 10 key messages for policy makers and the public. The resulting booklet, Social Determinants of Health—The Solid Facts, outlined the contribution of a range of social, material and psychosocial factors to population health: work, unemployment, early life, addiction, food, transport, stress, social exclusion, social support and the social gradient. The Solid Facts (as the booklet is more popularly known) made a strong but easily . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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