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At the Sixty-second World Health Assembly, the WHO urged the member states to pursue to reduce health inequities through action on the social determinants of health (WHO 2009). Social capital, at its best, serves as a measure of social determinants that has been accepted to promote public and population health and well-being (Cox 1997, OECD 2001, World Bank 2009, WHO 2009).
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Hyyppä, M.T. (2010). Implications and Implementations. In: Healthy Ties. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9606-7_15
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