The new battlefront over health programs for the poor is taking place over what has historically been a progressive concept: social determinants of health. The idea that social and environmental ...

Less than half of all Americans have a great deal of trust in state and local health departments, according to a 2021 poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Nearly one in five don’t trust ...

Before becoming a public health researcher, I trained as a geologist. That may seem like an unusual career trajectory, but it taught me that you can’t really understand how something exists today ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and other ongoing public health challenges have highlighted deficiencies in the US public health system. The United States is in a unique moment that calls for a transformation ...

Improving social determinants of health is a must-do for value-based care models that seek to improve and maintain health instead of treating illness, said former National Coordinator for Health IT ...

Most doctors in the U.S. now understand that their patients cannot live healthy lives when nutritious foods, safe housing, and other basic needs are out of reach. Recognizing this, health systems and ...

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 ...

The social determinants of health have a disproportionate impact on individual and population health. As common sense would suggest, safe neighborhoods, nutritious diets, adequate housing and higher ...

The first five years of life are a period of rapid brain and biological development that set the stage for lifelong health and learning. These early years are thus a key window for proactively ...

Social determinants of health are the conditions in which we live that can affect our health, happiness and quality of life. It’s estimated that social determinants influence up to 80% of ...