The role of justice in addressing the social determinants of health

Gliboe, S and Curran, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-2975, 2025. The role of justice in addressing the social determinants of health. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services. ISSN 2755-1938

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Abstract

This article explores social determinants of health (SDH) in the global context and their c connection to justice and human rights. Critiquing prevailing ‘top-down’ approaches it demonstrates responses can be divorced from local factors necessary for addressing SDH. This article examines Health Justice Partnerships and how interdisciplinary collaboration between health and legal services can address inequality and health disparities.

This article is timely as the ‘Hague Convention on Equal Access to Justice for All by 2030’ formulates five pillars of ‘people-centred justice.’ From the 2023 ‘Plan of Action’ comes a ‘Joint Statement and Call to Action on the Rule of Law and People-Centered Justice: Renewing a Core Pillar of Democracy,’ Creating alignment between SDH and Justice approaches for coordinated action.

The article demonstrates how HJPs offer a unique avenue for driving change at the community level, advocating for systemic transformations to address poverty, inequality, and injustice. By driving change from local to international levels, multiple voices provide lenses for problem solving. Using Gould’s theory, it explores how through joint-disciplinary perspectives and The Role of Justice in addressing the SDH 2 moving beyond paternalistic intervention through integrating justice, human rights, democracy can respond to drive outcomes in SDHs.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
Creators:	Gliboe, S. and Curran, L.
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date:	24 February 2025
ISSN:	2755-1938
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/27551938251321973 DOI 2310009 Other
Rights:	This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Law School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	04 Dec 2024 11:31
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2025 15:59
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52695

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