Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity
2018
This brief published by the Kaiser Family Foundation provides key findings on the social determinants of health, initiatives to address various determinants, and remaining challenges to promoting health equity based on policies and policy changes. It briefly describes different categories of social determinants of health and the ways they affect health outcomes including mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, and health care expenditures. It also discusses emerging initiatives to address social determinants of health both within and outside of the health sector. Key initiatives and new policies include place-based initiatives to improve health in neighborhoods with poor health outcomes as well as federal and state initiatives that impact the health care system, such as “Accountable Health Committees” established by the Affordable Care Act. The brief also discusses steps for looking ahead to the future, acknowledging the progress and the challenges that remain.
Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity
Source:
Artiga S, Hinton E. Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 2018. https://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/issue-brief/beyond-health-care-the-role-of-social-determinants-in-promoting-health-and-health-equity.