AJMC October 30, 2024
Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD, Mark Sciegaj, PhD

The policy community should consider these concrete suggestions to address the challenges presented by social determinants of health.

Although the importance of social determinants of health (SDOH) in influencing key individual and population health outcomes has been recognized by the public health and medical communities for decades,1 there has been increased discussion of the topic in recent years, especially in policy circles where the ongoing inequities in health outcomes and health care access and the high cost of care for various segments of the US population remain concerns.2 A focus on social determinants has received renewed interest at the federal, state, local, and private-sector levels as a potentially effective solution to improve these outcomes. At the federal level, the Center...

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