A Sophisticated Architecture Is Indeed Necessary for the Implementation of Health in All Policies but not Enough; Comment on “Understanding the Role of Public Administration in Implementing Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities”

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1 EHESP School of Public Health, Paris, France

2 CNRS, UMR Centre for Research on Political Action in Europe (CRAPE), Rennes, France

Abstract

In this commentary, I argue that beyond a sophisticated supportive architecture to facilitate implementation of actions on the social determinants of health (SDOH) and health inequities, the Health in All Policies (HiAP) project faces two main barriers: lack of awareness within policy networks on the social determinants of population health, and a tendency of health actors to neglect investing in other sectors’ complex problems.

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  • Receive Date: 28 January 2016
  • Revise Date: 27 February 2016
  • Accept Date: 28 February 2016
  • First Publish Date: 01 June 2016

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