What if improving education, income, and housing could reduce the disparities in healthcare outcomes by half? Identifying needs is proving more difficult than we anticipated. The social determinants ...

The settings in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age are known as social determinants of health or SDOH. These non-medical elements influence a wide range of health, functional, and ...

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The social determinants of health have a disproportionate impact on individual and population health. As common sense would suggest, safe neighborhoods, nutritious diets, adequate housing and higher ...

Discussions of social determinants of health might focus on the obvious ones—like income or education—while overlooking some other social determinants that impact health in complex ways. In recent ...

Social determinants of health are an individual’s personal circumstances that impact their health and well-being. They include political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors. Other examples of social ...