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Venkatapuram S, Bell R, Marmot M. The right to sutures: social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice. Health Hum Rights. 2010;12(2):3-16
Venkatapuram, S., Bell, R., & Marmot, M. (2010). The right to sutures: social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice. Health and human rights, 12(2), 3-16.
Venkatapuram, Sridhar, et al. "The right to sutures: social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice." Health and human rights vol. 12,2 (2010): 3-16.
Venkatapuram S, Bell R, Marmot M. The right to sutures: social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice. Health Hum Rights. 2010 Dec 15;12(2):3-16. PMID: 21178186; PMCID: PMC3694312.
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Health Hum Rights. 2010 Dec 15;12(2):3-16.

The right to sutures: social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice.

Health and human rights

Sridhar Venkatapuram, Ruth Bell, Michael Marmot

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  1. University College London, Deptartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, UK. [email protected]

PMID: 21178186 PMCID: PMC3694312

Abstract

The article examines the convergences and contrasts between social epidemiology, social medicine, and human rights approaches toward advancing global health and health equity. The first section describes the goals and work of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. The second section discusses the role of human rights in the Commission's work. The third section evaluates, from the perspective of social epidemiology, two rights-based approaches to advancing health and health equity as compared to a view that focuses more broadly on social justice. The concluding section identifies four areas where social epidemiologists, practitioners of social medicine, and health and human rights advocates can and must work together in order to make progress on health and health equity.

Copyright © 2010 Venkatapuram, Bell, and Marmot. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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