The Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health was adopted on 21 October 2011 at the World Health Organization's World Conference on Social Determinants of Health in Rio de Janeiro, expressing global political commitment to a social-determinants approach to reducing health inequities. It stands as the field's clearest formal statement that unequal social conditions, not only unequal access to medical care, are themselves a matter for organized government commitment.
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The declaration is the field's major formal political commitment built directly on this concept.
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expresses global political commitment for the implementation of a social determinants of health approach to reduce health inequities and to achieve other global priorities
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The Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health was adopted on 21 October 2011 at the World Health Organization's World Conference on Social Determinants of Health in Rio de Janeiro, expressing global political commitment to a social-determinants approach to reducing health inequities.
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