Social Determinants of Health

In this area, the group focuses its efforts on generating knowledge, sharing it, and raising global awareness about how life events and circumstances across different stages of life (from preconception to adulthood, including childhood and adolescence) influence long-term health and disease risk. The group's work is grounded in theoretical and conceptual frameworks such as the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) theory, which holds that environmental influences during early developmental stages can determine susceptibility to illness later in life, and the conceptual model of the Social Determinants of Health (SDH), which explains how the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, connect, and age have a direct impact on a wide range of health risks and outcomes, as well as on individual functioning and quality of life.

Its lines of research include:

• Health systems
• Education
• Employment conditions and work environment
• Health inequities/inequalities
• Intersectionality and health