Editors: Vivian Barnekow, Bjarne Bruun Jensen, Candace Currie, Alan Dyson, Naomi Eisenstadt and Edward Melhuish

2013

Volume 3. School

The WHO European Region, like much of the world, is beset by significant inequalities in health outcomes. The extent to which people enjoy good health is dependent not only on individual characteristics and experiences, but also on their gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, on where they live, on the resources available to their countries and on the global forces that help shape what happens locally. In other words, there are significant “social determinants” of health inequalities which – in principle at least – national policy and frontline practice can help to address.