Can Reality Match the Rhetoric? Rethinking Social Determinants for Health
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Publication Date
10-13-2015
Keywords
ethics, social determinants of health, diversity
Disciplines
Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Palliative Care
Abstract
Caregivers are increasingly expected to attend to the social determinants of health—a patient's education level, housing, food security, social support, access to technology and much more. Addressing the social context of a patient when medical care is delivered holds great promise, but there are also many challenges to doing it well.
Specialty/Research Institute
Biomedical Ethics
Specialty/Research Institute
Palliative Care
Specialty/Research Institute
Population Health
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Curtis R. Holzgang, M.D., MACP Visiting Scholar