According to Michael Marmot, chair of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health, social injustice kills on a massive scale. The links between...

A team of researchers analyzed the international scientific literature to examine the impact of school-based health education on potential reductions in health inequalities. These...

Inequalities are not the result of individual behavior but of living conditions and the environment. Social inequalities in health are very strongly determined by socioeconomic factors....

Health impact assessment is a new strategy for anticipating the effects of any project on public health. In particular, it makes it possible to identify, at an early stage, the...

Created to coordinate public health initiatives at the regional level, the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) have, as a top priority in their roadmap, the goal of reducing social health...

How can we measure social inequalities in health? This is a particularly difficult task. The three criteria commonly used in population surveys are: socioeconomic status, income, and...

The more disadvantaged one’s socioeconomic situation, the poorer one’s health. This “social gradient” is consistently observed across all contexts in scientific studies. The “Gradient”...

Evaluating an intervention aimed at reducing social inequalities in health is a difficult task, explain Valéry Ridde and Pierre Blaise. Nevertheless, the researchers’ most recent work...

In 2006, the Institute for Public Health Research (Iresp) issued a call for proposals to support research on social inequalities in health. The selected projects examine the mechanisms...

At age 35, a blue-collar worker has a life expectancy that is seven years shorter than that of a white-collar worker. Where do social inequalities in health come from? In addition to...