SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH INEQUITIES Integrating Social Theory Into Public Health Practice
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The innovative practice that resulted from the Ottawa Charter challenges public health knowledge about programming and evaluation. Specifically, there is a need to formulate program theory that embraces social determinants of health and local actors' mobilization for social change. Likewise, it is imperative to develop a theory of evaluation that fosters reflexive understanding of public health programs engaged in social change. We believe advances in contemporary social theory that are founded on a critique of modernity and that articulate a coherent theory of practice should be considered when addressing these critical challenges. {Am J Public Health. 2005; 95:591-595. doi:10.2105/ AJPH.2004.048017) Louise Potvin, PhD, Sylvie Gendron, PhD, Angele Bilodeau, PhD, and Patrick Chabot, PhD
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