title: Introduction to the "Evaluating the Impact of Structural Policies on Health Inequalities and Their Social Determinants and Fostering Change" (SOPHIE) Project.
abstract: The SOPHIE Project (acronym for Structural Policies for Health Inequalities Evaluation) has focused on evaluating the impact of structural policies on health equity, considering as such all those policies that exert a powerful influence on the structural determinants of health (e.g., patterns of social stratification, living and working conditions) and thus on health-related exposures through intermediary determinants. In these sections of the International Journal of Health Services, we present some of the main findings of the SOPHIE Project. We include both articles that summarize all the evidence already published in the project on a thematic area (such as labor market, gender, or housing) and articles that present new, unpublished evidence on a specific health inequality or policy.
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain cborrell@aspb.cat.
authors.forename: Carme
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Borrell
authors.affiliation: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malmusi
authors.affiliation: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Dept. of Psychiatry and Center for Research in Inner City Health, St Mike's Hospital University of Toronto Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Carles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muntaner
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D064890:Social Determinants of Health
keywords: inequalities in health; social determinants; structural policies