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Promoting Health and Equity: Evidence, Policy and Action

Promoting Health and Equity: Evidence, Policy and Action

Who Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Paperback

Series: Wpro Publication

General Political Science

ISBN10: 9290614277
ISBN13: 9789290614272
Publisher: World Health Orgn
Published: Sep 17 2009
Pages: 173
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.20 Depth: 11.60
Language: English
Recent years have seen a growth in the evidence base on policies and actions to promote health equity. Despite efforts, however, the evidence shows that inequalities are increasing rather than decreasing in many countries. This may partly be due to faulty policy decisions. There is clearly need for a better evidence-based approach on health policies to achieve equity.

At the same time, understanding is inadequate on how policy-makers can best make use of the growing evidence base on promoting equity in health. There is a need for stronger links between evidence and health policy-making and implementation. To respond in part to this need, the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office convened the High Level Meeting on Promoting Health Equity: Evidence, Policy and Action from 16-18 October 2007 in Phnom Penh, hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia, to provide an opportunity to exchange experiences and identify ways to promote the more systematic use of equity research in health policy and action.

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