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Health Promot J Austr · Dec 2006
Comparative StudyThe social determinants of health: is there a role for health promotion foundations?
- Barb Mouy and Ali Barr.
- Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Carlton South, Victoria, Australia. bmouy@vichealth.vic.gov.au
- Health Promot J Austr. 2006 Dec 1;17(3):189-95.
Issue AddressedIf they are to respond effectively to health inequities, organisations involved in health promotion need to refocus on the social determinants of health (SDH) and the distribution of resources for health.MethodsThis paper examines the potential of health promotion foundations (HPFs), a semi-autonomous arm of the state, to act at several policy and program intervention points to address the SDH and reduce health inequities.ConclusionThe public purpose, enterprise and innovation potential of health promotion foundations provides them with unique capacity to respond to SDH. In the complex and contested policy environment surrounding action on the determinants of health, the role that foundations can most usefully play is that of a change agent in a broader social movement seeking health equity.
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