Expert Consensus on Teaching Social Determinants of Health
The concept that social factors impact health can be found in the epidemiologist Rudolf Virchow’s writings from the 19th century, but I didn’t know any […]
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Take The Wheel, Don’t Reinvent It! An Education Collection for Social Determinants of Health
Today I am thinking about the patients who have visited me during my past few clinics. They have different backgrounds, personalities, and health states, something […]
Simulating Social Determinants: An Educational Strategy for Medical Students and Residents?
As medical students, we’ll find ourselves in the ‘sim lab’ on rotations such as emergency medicine and intensive care, going through different simulations of critically […]
Better Health through Partnership
Medical-legal partnerships are present within 333 health organizations in 42 states in the U.S. The realization of their importance in addressing the social determinants of […]
Optimizing Health Information Technology to Address Social Determinants of Health
Health information technology is defined as “the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing and […]
Constructing our Health
The ways in which we live, work, and interact with one another are subconsciously driven by the design of our communities. It’s no wonder, then, […]
The Time is Now
“Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.” Sir Michael Marmot […]