Social determinants of health are the nonclinical factors that affect health outcomes. They include systemic racism, along with social and community conditions, health care access, education ...

North Carolina used COVID-19 relief funding to create the Andrea Harris Social, Economic, Environmental, and Health Equity Task Force to provide recommendations to the state’s governor every six ...

Social determinants of health, such as access to secure housing, family employment and economic stability, education, and child care, must be the focus of federal policies to support infant and ...

Flickr/Alamosbasement. Put simply, social determinants of health (SDoH) are the “causes behind the causes”. The upstream social and economic factors that largely but insidiously dictate the ...

New research exhibits the influence that social determinants of health (SDOH) have on health care spending across all major insurance programs in the US. 1 Significant links were observed between ...

Words matter. Common definitions ensure that we understand each other. When health care leaders and public health officials use “social determinants of health” to mean different things, it ...

A new textbook edited by UB faculty member Leonard Egede explores health care inequalities, their origins and how to address ...

Economic inequality harms societies; it can increase anxiety and illness and fuel social and political unrest. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated health, economic, and social issues, and has ...

Women’s health has long been underfunded and under-researched. The disparity isn’t just a healthcare issue: It’s an economic and social crisis.

What Is the Nordic Model? The Nordic model is the combination of social welfare and economic systems adopted by Nordic countries. It combines features of capitalism, such as a market economy and ...

Although lupus-related medical complications affect pregnancy outcomes, social determinants and economic conditions, known as social determinants of health (SDOH), may also be important in shaping ...