Social Determinants of Health: The Community as an Empowered Partner

Added on 07th Apr 2003

Social class has been an overwhelmingly important risk factor for disease since the beginning of recorded time, and it's related to virtually every cause of disease that we know about. We all know this. But we haven't known what to do about this observation.

Prof. Len Syme

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2023 — 4 speeches

A search for the soul of the nation

2022 — 7 speeches

Eliminate Inequality: Rebuilding Australia from the ground up, all the way to the stars

2021 — 10 speeches

Think Bigger: Fix Everything

2020 — 10 speeches

Connection, Creativity, Community: Finding Hope in a Climate of Crisis

2019 — 9 speeches

Get Angry. Then Get Organised.

2018 — 11 speeches

Activating community leadership to combat inequality

2017 — 11 speeches

What makes healthy communities?

2016 — 9 speeches

It's the Community, Stupid: Putting people and the planet back in the picture

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