MedPage Today June 30, 2019
-An increasing focus on social determinants of health leads to new business ventures
I’ve been crisscrossing the country making presentations for many years, and there is one slide that routinely makes it into my deck — a graphic showing that a person’s zip code is more predictive of his or her health status and life expectancy than almost any other factor.
This should come as no surprise to anyone; the academic and popular literature (think historical novels) is replete with accounts associating disease and death with poor living conditions.
In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) called attention to the “unequal distribution of health-damaging experiences” in all world populations, attributing it to a “toxic combination of poor social policies, unfair...
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