Bias in WHO report on the social determinants of health.

摘要

In your Nov 8 Editorial (Nov 8, p 1607), you endorse the recommendations of WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health, thereby adding to the consensus that the report is a vital contribution to future health policy.A respected peer-reviewed journal such as The Lancet should have been less hasty in giving its uncritical support to the WHO report, because it reinforces the misleading impression that it is an objective, academically rigorous examination of the relation between economic and social structures and health. It is not.