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Quarterly Article
February 2024 Jonathan C. Heller, Marjory L. Givens, Sheri P. Johnson, David A. Kindig,
When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More
February 2024 Laura M. Gottlieb, Danielle Hessler, Holly Wing, Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha, Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg,
Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More
January 2024 Seth A. Berkowitz,
This article argues that social democracy requires political contestation but has greater potential than multisector collaboration to improve population health and health equity. More
Quarterly Opinion
October 2023 Ashley A. Meehan, Joshua M. Sharfstein,
It is no longer novel to point out that housing has substantial impacts on health. Housing quality influences exposure to health harms like lead,… More
August 2023 Anne M. Roux, Kaitlin K. Miller, Sha Tao, Jessica E. Rast, Jonas Ventimiglia, Paul T. Shattuck, Lindsay L. Shea,
Context: Employment is a key social determinant of health. As such, high rates of unemployment, underemployment, and poverty across the rapidly… More
April 2023 Mark D. Hayward, Mateo P. Farina,
We reviewed some of the recent advances in education and health, arguing that attention to social contextual factors and the dynamics of social and institutional change provide critical insights into the ways in which the association is embedded in institutional contexts. More
April 2023 Tyson H. Brown, Patricia Homan,
Policies that redress oppressive social, economic, and political conditions are essential for improving population health and achieving health equity. Efforts to remedy structural oppression and its deleterious effects should account for its multilevel, multifaceted, interconnected, systemic, and intersectional nature. More
April 2023 Marco Thimm-Kaiser, Adam Benzekri, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos,
To expand the number of effective strategies to address social determinants of health (SDOH), a practical framework for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers is needed to help conceptualize and target the key mechanisms of SDOH influence. More
September 2022 Melissa L. McCarthy, Yixuan Li, Angelo Elmi, Marcee E. Wilder, Zhaonian Zheng, Scott L. Zeger,
Social determinants of health are an important predictor of future health care costs but little is known about their impact on Medicaid spending. More
May 2022 Harold A. Pollack, Jason Lerner, Mary Beth Shapley,
Despite recognizing the importance of the social determinants of health, the health policy and public health community have failed to recognize and reward the profession and practice of social work, say Harold Pollack, Jason Lerner, and Mary Beth Shapley of the University of Chicago Urban Labs. More
