Emergency room (ER) admissions are the front door for utilization of a community's health resources and serve as valuable proxy community system's capacity. While recent research suggests that social determinants (SDOH) important predictors patient outcomes, their impact on ER during COVID-19 pandemic is not well understood. Further, role hospital information integration in moderating SDOH has ...

Underpinning the global commitment to universal health coverage (UHC) is the fundamental role of health for well-being and sustainable development. UHC is proposed as an umbrella health goal in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda because it implies universal and equitable effective delivery of comprehensive health services by a strong health system, aligned with multiple sectors around...

BACKGROUND Health is a complex phenomenon and equity as a basic human right an integral part of constitutions in almost all countries in the world. In Republic of Macedonia (RM), Tuberculosis (TB) is clustered regionally and in certain ethnic groups. The main objective of this study was to analyze Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and equity in access to healthcare services for TB patients in...

Background Since the publication of the reports by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), many research papers have documented inequities, explaining causal pathways in order to inform policy and programmatic decision-making. At the international level, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) reflect an attempt to bring together these themes and the complexities involved in de...

Adolescent pregnancy has been typically linked to a range of adverse outcomes for mother and child. In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have a higher proportion of adolescent births compared with other adolescent Australian women, and are at greater risk of poorer psychosocial and clinical outcomes if they are not well supported during pregnancy and beyond. Drawing on exis...

Social determinants of health (SDH) are an important public health policy discourse and the concept and scope of SDH is debated within and outside of the public health field. This article concerns itself with the visibility of people with disabilities in existing SDH discourses. It employed a frequency analysis of Google and Google Scholar search hits obtained with the phrase "social determinan...

Abstract Social determinants of health (SDOH), such as age, race, sex/gender, socioeconomic status, and access to healthcare, influence wellbeing, shape day-to-day life. To what degree SDOH cognitive decline is less well understood. Thus, we applied frameworks understand better. We used data from the CDC's 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, in which 61,770 adults (mean age = 64.7,...

Background: Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to over 50% outcomes and inequities. Healthcare institutions are increasingly implementing SDOH screenings referrals. St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) in Northwest Indiana was the first acute care hospital implement a comprehensive pilot screening referral program using validated Protocol for Responding Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks,...

BACKGROUND Failure to address social determinants of health (SDH) may contribute to the problem of readmissions in high-risk individuals. Comprehensive shared care plans (CSCP) may improve care continuity and health outcomes by communicating SDH risk factors across settings. PURPOSE The purpose of this study to evaluate the state of knowledge for integrating SDH into a CSCP. Our scoping revie...