Several social determinants, including access to food, follow-up care and even family, have an impact on surgery success, even if a procedure is executed perfectly.

These external factors – collectively referred to as the social determinants of health, or SDH – can influence health outcomes for almost every patient that you will encounter in medical ...

When applying this concept to real-world care, practitioners must factor in social determinants of health. These non-medical factors can significantly impact medical outcomes. They encompass the ...

Providing health benefits is rapidly moving beyond merely paying for physicians, hospitalization, medications and devices to ...

The Rhode Island Life Index is something Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island commissions every year through the Brown ...

How we train future clinicians has the potential to radically and sustainably improve healthcare for everyone. Current medical education has an overt biomedical focus that does not engage enough on ...

UB researcher Marianthi Markatou has received PCORI funding for a project that could impact multiple medical conditions, including opioid use disorder.

A prediction model incorporating a polygenic risk score (PRS) and polysocial score (PSS), including social determinants of ...

These barriers may include lack of or inadequate health insurance, provider shortages, and/or illness-related symptoms ... (2024 Feb). The social determinants of mental health and disorder ...