Engaging the health community in global economic reform.

The authors express their opinion that the health community should help reform global economic governance to promote global health. They explain that the global meeting on the world economy, the G20 summit, does not address the issues of rising poverty, hunger, and the threat to public resources for health services resulting from the economic crisis. The report by the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) is discussed.