Fierce Healthcare November 15, 2018
When doctors understand how social forces affect patients’ health, they can find opportunities to intervene on their behalf.
Social determinants of health are becoming increasingly mainstream.
From health plans to health lawyers to Secretary Alex Azar, seemingly everyone in the healthcare realm now acknowledges that social determinants are a legitimate cause of poor health outcomes and health disparities and, more importantly, need to be addressed.
Now a new series in the New England Journal of Medicine is encouraging physicians to think beyond the social determinants of health to address the “structural determinants” of health.
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