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Closing the gap in a generation

WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

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The Commission on Social Determinants of Health was set up by former World Health Organization Director-General JW Lee. It was tasked to collect, collate, and synthesize global evidence on the social determinants of health and their impact on health inequity, and to make recommendations for action to address that inequity.