The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes
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Summary
Evidence has accumulated pointing to socioeconomic factors such as income, wealth, and education as the fundamental causes of a wide range of health outcomes, and plausible pathways and biological mechanisms that may explain their effects are reviewed.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2014-01-01
- Cited by
- 3,041
- References
- 147
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2162049040
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:29519664
Keywords
Social determinants of health, Socioeconomic status, Recreation, Public health, Health care
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