Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on lifelong health and opportunity. As such, early experiences are an important public health issue […]
If you have seen the show “Avenue Q”, the hilariously funny spoof of Sesame Street, you may remember the song, “Everyone’s a little bit racist”. […]
Whatever the power—even the necessity—of the disciplines. . . in the end, questions never stop at the boundaries of a discipline. Efforts to develop decisive […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
“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 […]