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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the World Health Organization, more than 60% of health outcomes are the result of social determinants of health such as economic strain, food insecurity, housing instability, social ...

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.

Women’s social and economic backgrounds shape their life trajectories in profound ways. It is against this backdrop that the consequences of early or late childbearing for women’s health and ...

It plays a pivotal role in the financial, physical and emotional health of children, and data suggest that effective contraception and positive social outcomes are mutually reinforcing.