Promoting Health Equity: a resource to help communities address social determinants of health

Published on: 1st September 2024

This summary report by Chris Thomas et al. explores three years of analysis, qualitative work, commissioner debate and stakeholder engagement, to argue the need to move from a sickness model to a health creation (whole society) system to enable better health as a route to prosperity. The paper explores the five founding principles of health creation in a UK context: work that creates health; healthy industrial strategy; a health guarantee at the start of life; the foundations of health in every neighbourhood; and proactive healthcare through the NHS, with useful infographics.

Published on: 1st February 2016

Sara Dodd's report outlines Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) learning to date about how working with an understanding of social contexts can help improve health and tackle health inequalities