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 ...

Screening for social determinants of health (SDOH) is increasingly done in primary and specialty care settings. Payers and health care organizations have recognized the importance of these ...

The Memorial Healthcare System is focusing on food, housing, and transportation to help reduce unnecessary ED visits and boost care quality. A Florida health system is putting social determinants of ...

The settings in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age are known as social determinants of health or SDOH. These non-medical elements influence a wide range of health, functional, and ...

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 ...