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Seeking Organisational Endorsements: Comments on ‘Draft Technical Paper’ prepared for the World Conference on SDH

Seeking Endorsements: Comments on ‘Draft Technical Paper’ prepared for the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health (WCSDH) from 19-21 October 2011 in Rio de Janeiro with the support of the Government of Brazil. The Conference will be organized in accordance with the Resolution 62.14 of the 62nd World Health Assembly and as a follow-up for the work of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH).

The WHO has published a ‘Draft Technical Paper’ on the WCSDH and initiated a consultation around it through inviting online submissions.

The People’s Health Movement (PHM), in association with several public interest groups and networks, has been coordinating a collective civil society response to the Draft Technical Paper which we strongly believe is a step back from the report of the CSDH ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health equity through action on social determinants of health’. We would like to get as many individual and organisational endorsements as possible.


This letter seeks:

Endorsements to the attached statement. You may wish to make your endorsement through:
filling-in the attached ‘Endorsement Form’ and sending it back by email to globalsecretariat@phmovement.org OR
submitting your endorsement online at http://www.phmovement.org/en/wcsdh-endorse-statement
Endorsements should be received by 01 PM GMT time on 09th June 2011


If you have any questions on this feel free to contact me at any time,

Thank you!

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Global Secretariat
People's Health Movement (PHM)
Email: globalsecretariat@phmovement.org
Web: www.phmovement.org

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