Legal Determinants of Health.

Thomson, M

Legal Determinants of Health.

Thomson, M

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Med Law Rev, 2022
Issue Date:: 2022-08-02

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dc.contributor.author	Thomson, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1570-2481
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-18T04:34:22Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-18T04:34:22Z
dc.date.issued	2022-08-02
dc.identifier.citation	Med Law Rev, 2022
dc.identifier.issn	0967-0742
dc.identifier.issn	1464-3790
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/160452
dc.description.abstract	Social determinants of health are the social and economic conditions that have a determining impact on health at an individual and population level. Working within this framework, in 2019 the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and The Lancet published The legal determinants of health: Harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development. This report identifies and promotes four legal determinants: provision of universal health coverage under the Sustainable Development Goals; governance of national and global health institutions; implementation of evidence-based health interventions; and building legal capacity. These determinants are dominated by the role of law in founding and governing health institutions and regulating their interventions. Such work is essential. However, the relationship between law, health improvement, and health equity articulated through these four determinants risks marginalising questions of disadvantage and inequality that social determinants of health research-and the report itself-mandate we attend to. Addressing the UK experience of COVID-19, and how social inequalities profoundly impacted experiences and outcomes in the first year of the pandemic, this article builds on the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's important work to argue that any articulation of legal determinants of health must foreground law's role in improving fairness in social arrangements and the distribution of resources.
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press (OUP)
dc.relation.ispartof	Med Law Rev
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1093/medlaw/fwac025
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.rights	This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Medical Law Review, following peer review. The version of record Michael Thomson, Legal Determinants of Health, Medical Law Review, 2022;, fwac025 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwac025
dc.subject	1801 Law
dc.subject.classification	Law
dc.title	Legal Determinants of Health.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.location.activity	England
utslib.for	1801 Law
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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utslib.copyright.embargo	2024-08-02T00:00:00+1000Z
dc.date.updated	2022-08-18T04:34:21Z
pubs.publication-status	Published online

Abstract:

Social determinants of health are the social and economic conditions that have a determining impact on health at an individual and population level. Working within this framework, in 2019 the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and The Lancet published The legal determinants of health: Harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development. This report identifies and promotes four legal determinants: provision of universal health coverage under the Sustainable Development Goals; governance of national and global health institutions; implementation of evidence-based health interventions; and building legal capacity. These determinants are dominated by the role of law in founding and governing health institutions and regulating their interventions. Such work is essential. However, the relationship between law, health improvement, and health equity articulated through these four determinants risks marginalising questions of disadvantage and inequality that social determinants of health research-and the report itself-mandate we attend to. Addressing the UK experience of COVID-19, and how social inequalities profoundly impacted experiences and outcomes in the first year of the pandemic, this article builds on the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's important work to argue that any articulation of legal determinants of health must foreground law's role in improving fairness in social arrangements and the distribution of resources.

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