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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 98, Issue 5, Pages 787-792Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.120329
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control was founded in response to newly emerging infections such as severe acute respiratory sync rome and avian influenza. However, Europe faces other communicable disease challenges that have proven to be remarkably resilient to public health interventions. We present examples of communicable diseases with inequitable distribution among those with poor educational attainment low income, or other socioeconomic factors in every European country. Because these findings are incompatible with social justice and fairness, we examine strategic interventions targeting upstream causes of communicable disease transm ssion keeping in mind 10 indispensable public health functions essential to reach marginalized groups. These intervention, have to be tailored to the socio-political context and rely on community-based decision-making and intersectorial collaboration.
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