CHICAGO — Health equity is about fair and just care for everyone, and there’s no quality in healthcare without equity, Jillian Rose-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW, vice president and chief equity officer at ...

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 ...

Race is not a social determinant of health (SDOH). This is because SDOHs are aspects of a person’s environment that affect their health, not aspects of themselves as individuals. However, racism can ...

Heart disease continues to disproportionately affect Black Americans, driven by a complex mix of genetics, chronic conditions and social determinants of health.

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As oft-cited as social determinant of health investments may be in healthcare discussions and strategy, their causal relationship to health outcomes remains blurry with savings that are often ...

Panelists discuss how social determinants of health significantly influence uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) prevalence and outcomes, with patients with lower income, those from rural areas ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Homeless patients with ESKD were more likely to be younger, men or Black. These patients had lower mortality and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent cross-linking were younger and white and had commercial insurance. Patients treated with ...