Engelsk titel: The Malmö commission - reflections from the chairman of the commission
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Författare:
Isacsson, Sven-Olof
Email: sven-olof.isacsson@med.lu.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 4
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15013146
Sammanfattning
Since several decades Malmö city in Sweden has shown increasing inequities
in health. Inspired by the WHO-report Closing the gap in a generation the local
politicians decided in 2010 to set up a commission on social determinants for
health. Over the course of two years the Malmö Commission´s fourteen members
and Chairman and Secretariat, along with many other researchers and
experts established in national and international research published 32 scientific
reports in which a total of more than 200 proposed actions were presented.
In March 2014 the local politicians decided to carry out 69 activities based on
the proposed 74 recommendations from the commission’s 2013 final report.
My conclusions as chairman of the commission are the following: (1) Reliable
data on health and it´s social determinants are of invaluable importance for
decisions regarding health in all policies; (2) Members of a commission shall
be both scientists and practitioners; (3) Qualified competence in epidemiology,
sociology and health economics is necessary; (4) For the future: Create a permanent
function for monitoring of health, socials determinants and evaluation
of the continuous work.