SEATTLE — Social determinants of health, nonmedical factors that can have a significant influence on health and lead to various disparities in a variety of ways, affect the well-being of patients ...

Home-based care providers have an unmatched view of barriers that can undermine care outcomes known as social determinants of ...

From right to left: moderator: Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A., President, Thomas Jefferson University and Chief Executive Officer, Jefferson Health; Jaewon Ryu, M.D ...

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has published a new call to action statement urging the sports medicine ...

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 ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND: Despite strong guideline recommendations for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) following an acute myocardial infarction ...

This study provides insight on the experiences of patients of a national health plan with 2 structural determinants of health—health care discrimination and health literacy—and how those interact with ...

Sabrina Jones Niggel ( [email protected]) is a research assistant professor in the College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina, in Charlotte. William P. Brandon is the Metrolina ...

One of the greatest aspects of being a doctor that virtually all premedical students look forward to is the opportunity to work closely with patients, using one’s knowledge of medical science to treat ...

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 ...