Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Final Report to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (35 mins)
Scroll down to "Chapter 2: Global Health Inequity - the Need for Action" and read pages 29 to 34. Notice how health measures are compared across countries in order to identify inequities.
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