Résumé :
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Social protection for health moves beyond understanding the social determinants of health to identifying the policies and programmes that can address them. Although social protection has great relevance to health, most of the related discussions are taking place outside the health sector. Thus, to identify areas for strategic partnership, we conducted a semi-structured review of how the World Health Organization (WHO), International Labour Organization (ILO), World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) define social protection and how this relates to health in the WHO European Region. We found several areas of synergy: (i) between the EU, ILO and OECD on social assistance and (ii) between the World Bank and IMF in relation to resilience and social risk management. Building on this analysis, we developed a conceptual framework of the bidirectional linkages between health and social protection. We call on the health sector to lead by example and act on the many social determinants over which it has influence, especially employment, working conditions and income support. We conclude that development of a research and policy agenda could be strengthened through creating WHO Collaborating Centres, launching policy innovation labs and establishing a Commission on Social Protection for Health.
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