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ArticlePublic health2012

Fair society, healthy lives.

M Marmot, R Bell

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Article in Public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 369 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

369 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Deprived areas and adverse perinatal outcome: a systematic review.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024
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  18. Pedagogical health - a holistic perspective on promoting children's and students' well-being in school.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026
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  19. Missed Diagnosis in Alcohol-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Call for Alcohol Consumption and Liver Disease Early Detection.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  20. Stop Auditing Mothers and Start Auditing Systems.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026
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309 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

M MarmotUCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK.
R BellUCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK. Electronic address: r.bell@ucl.ac.uk.

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/07/008/23674Medical Research Council G0100222Medical Research Council G0902037Medical Research Council G19/35Medical Research Council G8802774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The final report of the World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008, affirmed that social injustice was killing on a grand scale, with a toxic combination of 'poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics' being responsible for producing and reinforcing health inequalities. It provided a comprehensive evidence-based discussion of pervasive inequalities of health in many countries, demonstrating the presence of a social gradient in health outcomes associated with the unfair distribution of the social determinants of health. The social determinants of health include the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and the fundamental drivers of these conditions: the distribution of power; money; and resources. Following publication of the CSDH report and recommendations for action, the UK Government commissioned a Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England. This article provides an overview and reflection on the findings from the CSDH and the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England, reviewing the case for putting fairness at the heart of all policy making. In the process, it highlights the need for action on the social determinants of health in order to address health inequalities and the social gradient in health outcomes.

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Health Status DisparitiesPublic HealthSocial JusticeAgedAged, 80 and overChild, PreschoolEnglandFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSocial Class

Identifiers

PMID22784581

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