Home-based care providers have an unmatched view of barriers that can undermine care outcomes known as social determinants of ...

Money and love are the primary social determinants of health, according to our newly published research. Although not the focus of our healthcare system, they may play an important role in our health.

BACKGROUND: Despite strong guideline recommendations for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) following an acute myocardial infarction ...

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has published a new call to action statement urging the sports medicine ...

Genetic makeup, protein expression, drug metabolization. All of these serve a critical role in determining a person’s health. Yet there is so much more to health. According to research, consumer ...

The first-ever set of measures of social determinants of health has been adopted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The measure set, proposed by the Physicians Foundation, was ...

Every once in a while people start thinking the same thoughts at the same time in a way that changes how we do science. Such confluence often serves to reconfigure how we interpret and what we infer ...

Social determinants of health (SDoH) are independent risk factors for asthma, according to a study published online Oct. 24 in the Journal of Asthma. Feng Yang, Ph.D., from Baotou Medical College in ...

What if improving education, income, and housing could reduce the disparities in healthcare outcomes by half? Identifying needs is proving more difficult than we anticipated. The social determinants ...

We thoroughly enjoyed the article by Len Nichols and Lauren Taylor (Aug 2018) on social determinants that underlie good health care, but we believe it was missing a key puzzle piece. That missing ...

The coronavirus pandemic afflicted the US healthcare industry at a time when it was already experiencing rising rates of chronic disease, doctor burnout, and staff shortages—but it especially took a ...