Quantifying upstream drivers of health can help compound improvement in downstream outcomes
Health Affairs November 13, 2024
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Health and well-being include not only clinical issues traditionally addressed by the health care system, but also the social, environmental, and economic factors that influence health. Non-medical drivers of health (DOH), also known as social determinants of health (SDOH), are ”the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider...