Experts Analyze Links of Health and Social Problems

: "Washington, D.C., July 5, 2005 (PAHO)—A joint PAHO/WHO regional meeting on the global Commission for the Social Determinants of Health opened Monday with a call by a senior health official to deal with the current 'very complex health development landscape.'

'What good does it to treat people's illnesses . . . then send them back to the conditions that made them sick,' said Dr. Timothy Evans, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Evidence and Information for Policy.

'We need to recognize that we are in a very complex health development landscape at the moment,' Evans told the opening session of the two-day Regional Consultation on the Work of the Commission for the Social Determinants of Health being held at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, D.C."