The Future of Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream to Structural Drivers.
Policy Points Policies that redress oppressive social, economic, and political conditions are essential for improving population health and achieving health equity. Efforts to remedy structural oppression and its deleterious effects should account for its multilevel, multifaceted, interconnected, systemic, and intersectional nature. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should facilitate the creation and maintenance of a national publicly available, user-friendly data infrastructure on contextual measures of structural oppression. Publicly funded research on social determinants of health should be mandated to (a) analyze health inequities in relation to relevant data on structural conditions and (b) deposit the data in the publicly available data repository.
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- Social Determinants of Health
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Published In
DOI
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Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Social Determinants of Health
- Population Health
- Humans
- Health Status Disparities
- Health Policy & Services
- Health Equity
- 4206 Public health
- 4203 Health services and systems
- 1603 Demography
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services