[Monitoring social determinants of health]. / La vigilancia de los determinantes sociales de la salud.
Gac Sanit
; 30 Suppl 1: 38-44, 2016 Nov.
Article
in Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27837795
ABSTRACT
Public health surveillance is the systematic and continuous collection, analysis, dissemination and interpretation of health-related data for planning, implementation and evaluation of public health initiatives. Apart from the health system, social determinants of health include the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, and they go a long way to explaining health inequalities. A surveillance system of the social determinants of health requires a comprehensive and social overview of health. This paper analyses the importance of monitoring social determinants of health and health inequalities, and describes some relevant aspects concerning the implementation of surveillance during the data collection, compilation and analysis phases, as well as dissemination of information and evaluation of the surveillance system. It is important to have indicators from sources designed for this purpose, such as continuous records or periodic surveys, explicitly describing its limitations and strengths. The results should be published periodically in a communicative format that both enhances the public's ability to understand the problems that affect them, whilst at the same time empowering the population, with the ultimate goal of guiding health-related initiatives at different levels of intervention.
Key words
Comunicación en salud; Data sources; Determinantes sociales de la salud; Fuentes de información; Geographic information systems; Health communication; Health status indicators; Indicadores del estado de salud; Public health surveillance; Sistemas de información geográfica; Social determinants of health; Vigilancia en salud pública
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Public Health
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Healthcare Disparities
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Social Determinants of Health
Type of study:
Screening_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
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Patient_preference
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
Es
Journal:
Gac Sanit
Journal subject:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article