This article seeks to critically analyze the Social Determinants of Health approach and proposes a synthesis of the critique that has shaped the debate and particularly found expression in the differentiation between SDH and the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health 'social determination of the health-disease processes' approach. Reexamining the apparent rhetoric unanimity that defined the agenda of the mobilization around the Social Determinants of Health, we seek to address the differences between these approaches and conclude that the Social Determinants of Health approach marks an important but incomplete advance in the mobilization towards the reduction of health inequities.
INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH; Equity in health; Social medicine