Up to 80% of health outcomes are influenced by factors beyond clinical care such as economic wellbeing, housing, food insecurity, and other community and social factors.1 These social drivers can ...

UC San Francisco developed an interactive population health mapping website that allows users to analyze the effect of factors such as social determinants of health on neighborhood-level health ...

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 ...

elderly patient hands The goal of this pilot study is to provide support and resources for their high-risk Medicaid patients, promoting healthier lives, and saving on health care-related costs.

(3) discussed characteristics of metrics necessary for stakeholder action (across multiple sectors whose engagement is needed to transform the conditions for health in communities); and (4) ...

Delays in oncologic time to treatment initiation (TTI) independently and adversely affect disease-specific mortality. Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are increasingly recognized as significant ...

Decode Colorado, digs into the healthcare landscape in Colorado. When you consider how, when, and why you get sick or deal with certain health conditions, are factors like race, socioeconomic status, ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that “one-size-fits-all” doesn’t really work in public or population health. (Photo: Getty) The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that ...