Clinicians have long recognized the role that social determinants play in the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Poverty, low educational attainment, unsafe or unstable housing, ...

Certain markers of a person's financial and social status, known as social determinants of health, offer valuable information about a person's potential risk of heart disease but are often overlooked, ...

Cerner launched its Social Determinants Innovation Collaborative, which aims to tackle social determinants of health such as food insecurity, housing, transportation and access to healthcare. The ...

More than 7 in 10 healthcare organizations use EHRs to collect information on social determinants of health, but more standardization is needed to fully realize the potential of this data collection, ...

Maximizing Federal Investments To Address Social Determinants of Health In its response to a request for information from the Congressional Caucus for Social Determinants of Health, CAP outlined ...

Trisha Parekh, DO, discusses her research on the impact of psychological stress on low-income patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The COVID-19 pandemic has brought social ...

Nonmedical conditions that significantly affect health and quality of life are social determinants of health, or SDOH. Being healthy is at the top of many of our to-do lists. But did you know that ...

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 ...

Michael N. Cantor ([email protected]) is clinical director, New York University Langone Health DataCore; an associate professor of population health and medicine; and director of clinical research ...

The prevalence of HIV/AIDS among young people aged 15-24 in urban areas is at least 12 times higher among girls than boys in Burundi, while it is twice as high in Rwanda. The gap between the two ...