Our work within Public Health Insight aims to generate evidence-informed solutions for decision makers. Public Health Insight incorporates the Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG) and we thought it was time to provide an update on the work of CPHG and highlight the scope of our Cochrane reviews.
By way of background, in 2005 the World Health Organisation (WHO) convened the Commission on Social Determinants of Health to determine the available evidence globally on health inequities. The ultimate goal of the commission was to identify strategies to curb the increase in inequities.
The results suggested that inequities were not naturally occurring and could be avoidable by improving policy choices, i.e. acting on the social and structural determinants of population health.
In 2008, the Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG) was registered as an editorial group with the international Cochrane Collaboration to address these challenges. Our mandate is to produce systematic reviews of…
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Dr. Soumyadeep Bhaumik 