Across healthcare settings, providers see the ways social and economic conditions shape patient outcomes. A person who struggles to afford healthy food, misses appointments..
Health is shaped by much more than clinical care. Research shows that up to 80% of health outcomes are influenced by social, economic, and environmental factors such as housing..
For decades, health in the U.S. has been defined primarily in terms of medical care: access to hospitals, medications, and advanced technology. But research consistently shows..
Conversations around achieving health equity often include references to structural racism (also called systemic or institutional racism), which describes the web of social,..
