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 ...

Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO, professor of medicine at Stanford Medicine, medical oncologist, and director for the Stanford Cancer Institute and the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the ...

While resources and strategies to combat social determinants of health do exist, effectively leveraging them requires a coordinated approach involving supportive policies, technical assistance, ...

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 ...

As awareness about social determinants of health (SDOH) grows in medicine, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have teamed up to develop new data elements and ...

A global report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the underlying causes of ill health often stem from factors beyond the health sector, such as lack of quality housing, ...

About The Study: In this cross-sectional study of 14,000 insured adults, individual-level social determinants of health were significantly associated with U.S. health care expenditures by Medicare, ...

Older adults with unfavorable social determinants of health (SDoH) were significantly associated with an increased risk of frailty, with a more visible effect on those aged 65-75. That is according to ...

Rylan Egan receives funding from the Henderson Foundation via Compassionate Communities Kingston Canada. In the past, he has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), ...

Engaging Patients, Oncologists, and Primary Care Clinicians in the Care of Cancer Survivors: A Coordinated Care Model With System-Level Technology to Move the Outcomes Needle Electronic health records ...