The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes

By P. Braveman, L. Gottlieb. Public health reports (1974), 2014

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Cancer statistics, 2023 (2023, background): “The social determinants of health are defined by the World Health Organization as the conditions in which individuals are born, grow, live, work, and age(111) because these influences are consistently and strongly associated with life expectancy and disease mortality.(112,113) The most recent exampl”
Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health. (2020, background): “…develop critical health literacy in populations, this approach should not be regarded as a substitute for the need to tackle the root causes of inequity (“the causes of the causes”) (12, 34, 35) and the need to address underlying inequities in the distribution of power, resources, and opportunity.”
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017, background): “…there is mounting evidence that focusing programs, policies, and investments on addressing these conditions can improve the health of vulnerable populations and reduce health disparities (Bradley et al., 2016; Braveman and Gottlieb, 2014; Thornton et al., 2016; Williams and Mohammed, 2013).”