Awareness of the impact of social factors on health and illnesses is hardly new. It
was, however, the 2008 Report of WHO Commission on social determinants of health (SDoHs)
that represented a major milestone in medicine.
1
The SoDHs are non-medical factors that influence health outcomes and have a significant
effect on health inequities. Initially, a limited set of SDoHs including nutrition,
education, employment, and living environment was emphasized and applied to nearly
all people. However, that list has since grown substantially to dozens of proposed
SDoHs.
2
This is not surprising because SDoH is not a fixed, static, monolithic entity, and
there are a number of additional SDoHs that relate to specific groups of people and
to specific medical conditions. Importantly, some social determinants have beneficial
rather than adverse effects on health.- Islam MM
Social determinants of health and related inequalities: confusion and implications.
Front. Public Health. 2019; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00011
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Publication history
Published online: January 21, 2022
Accepted:
January 7,
2022
Received:
January 5,
2022
Footnotes
Note: Pender is the current President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Jeste is the Chair of the APA Task Force on Social Determinants of Mental Health, and Koh is a member of this Task Force.
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