Social drivers of health

Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other nation, the United States experiences declining life expectancy and increasing chronic disease burden—a paradox reflecting fundamental limitations in the current treatment-centered, facility-based care system. This paper introduces Neighborhood Nursing, an innovative universal care infrastructure designed to shift the US healthcare toward proactive, prevention-centered care organized geographically in neighborhoods. More

Cross-sector collaborations among health care and housing services organizations promise more efficient use of resources and delivery of more coherent and effective services to people experiencing homelessness (PEH). More

Since the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, his administration has “flooded the zone” with a deluge of… More

Despite our best public health efforts (and a zealous diet industry), the rising tide of obesity continues unabated. New classes of diabetes… More

Rates of maternal mortality in the United States increased sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic, with evidence of widening racial disparities.1… More

When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More

Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More

This article argues that social democracy requires political contestation but has greater potential than multisector collaboration to improve population health and health equity. More

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

Context: Employment is a key social determinant of health. As such, high rates of unemployment, underemployment, and poverty across the rapidly… More