Social Determinants of Health—Relevant History, A Call to Action, An Organization’s Transformational Story, and What Can Employers Do?
Year: 2020
Type: editorial
Abstract: Relevant History of SDOH and a Call to Action F or decades, frontline health-care professionals have known of the downstream effects of SDOH.Working in a clinic or visiting patients in their homes told the story.Under-or unemployment, unsafe neighborhoods, failing schools, broken stairs, leaking roofs, peeling paint, empty refrigerators, mold and bugs, unfilled medication bottles, and unfit living conditions plague large sections of our population, dividing rich from poor, further disadvantaging minorities as the American Dream hangs tenuously in the balance.There is no question that disadvantage, discrimination, and poverty produce poor health, and that more and better health care, newer scanners, more procedures, and new medicines cannot change the outcome.So how did we get here?
Authors: Mary Jane Osmick, Marcella Wilson
Institution: Chester County Historical Society
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3000666003