WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
Abstract
The Globalization Knowledge Network (GKN) was
formed in 2005 with the purpose of examining how
contemporary globalization was influencing social
determinants of health. It was one of nine Knowledge
Networks providing evidence-informed guidance
to the work of the World Health Organization’s
Commission on Social Determinants of Health
(2005-2008): like most of the Knowledge Networks,
its operations were financed by an external funder
(in this case, the International Affairs Directorate
of Health Canada, Canada’s national ministry of
health). The GKN conducted two face-to-face
meetings to debate, discuss, outline and review its
work, and produced thirteen background papers
and a Final Report. These papers and the Final
Report underwent extensive internal and external
peer review to ensure that their findings and policy
inferences accurately reflected available evidence
and scholarship.
This GKN publication series was prepared under
the general editorship of Ronald Labonté, with
assistance from Vivien Runnels and copy-editing
provided by Wayne Harding. All views expressed
are exclusively those of the authors. A complete
list of titles in the publication series appears on the
inside back cover of this monograph
