Date: 29, 30 April, 2007
Venue: Adelaide, Australia
This international symposium was hosted by the CRCAH
as one of the main activities of the Social determinants of
Health Program for 2007. It was convened by our partner
organisation Flinders University and led by Professor Fran Baum as
one of the twenty Commissioners on the World Health
Organisation-endorsed Commission on Social Determinants of Health
(CSDH). A series of case studies on the social determinants of
health from around the world were used as the basis for
the meeting, including five Australian case studies.
About 70 key researchers, policy makers and industry met to
discuss and inform the preparation of a report and key
recommendations for policy and action on the social determinants of
Indigenous health that was presented to the CSDH at their 8th
meeting on 7-9 June 2007 in Vancouver . This report will be of
value to governments who wish to understand what actions on the
social determinants of Indigenous health would mitigate risk
conditions and improve health outcomes for Indigenous people.
The five Australian case studies presented at the symposium
were:
- Social determinants of health from a social justice perspective
– Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission.
- Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative and their home ownership
program.
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service prison health
progam.
- Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC).
- Water costs as a social determinant of health in a remote
community.
The program, background overview document, case studies, final
report and photographs from the symposium are available
at:
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/SACHRU/Symposium/
Other links that may also be of interest are the report from the
meeting of the CSDH in Vancouver at which the report from the
international symposium was presented:
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/links/events/8th_meeting_csdh_report.pdf
and the link to the CSDH site:
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/strategy/meetings/2007/geneva/en/index.html
