Impact of socioeconomic factors on health outcomes
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This review summarizes how socioeconomic elements affect health outcomes while showing their critical nature for understanding inequalities in population health. The review investigates socioeconomic factors such as financial circumstances, education, working situations and levels of support to determine their effects on health choices and healthcare resource availability. Lower social status is linked to greater health problems, and it increases both mortality numbers and disease occurrence. The research review integrates published documents to show how various socioeconomic determinants link with health outcomes while confirming the need to resolve economic disparities to boost public health outcomes. Public health policy receives analysis, leading to suggested targeted intervention approaches for vulnerable groups. Researchers agree future work should focus on several investigative fields such as extended period analyses, pop-up intervention application reviews, and socioeconomic relationship evaluations with health outcomes. A deep understanding of societal influences enables policymakers to create better strategies for fostering health equity alongside better community health outcomes. Keywords: Socioeconomic Factors, Health Outcomes, Health Disparities, Public Health Policy, Social Determinants Of Health
Institutions: University of West Georgia, University of Ghana
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6892243343