February 16, 2024Milbank QuarterlyOpen Access

Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health

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Structural determinants of health represent written and unwritten rules that perpetuate hierarchical advantages through entrenched power relations.
Theoretical analysis reveals that altering power relations differentiates interventions in structural determinants of health from social determinants of health.
Calls for public health policy to resolve persistent health inequities by directly engaging in political action and altering established social structures.

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Theoretical analysis defines structural determinants of health in societal hierarchies, highlighting public health engagement in shifting power relations.

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Heller et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e78cf2b6db6435876fece7 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12695

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Theoretical analysis defines structural determinants of health in societal hierarchies, highlighting public health engagement in shifting power relations.

Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health

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Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health

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