AJMC September 6, 2024
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 years, the term social determinants of health has gained prominence in the population health lexicon. Discussion of social determinants of health can be found on almost every medical conference’s agenda and on the priority lists of a growing number of health systems, insurers, employers, and nonprofits.
Social determinants of health are defined by the World Health Organization as “the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily...
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