Tagged With "Determinants"

At this point, COVID-19 has been a part of our lives for nearly six months now. While the most recent current events are not unfamiliar social problems, this pandemic has provided us with a stronger lens with which to see many of the underlying inequities within our communities. This article, “The Moral Determinants of Health,” explores these inequities by illustrating the systemic imbalances within the field of medicine and the amount of resources we allocate to solving problems as opposed...

Let us be clear: Guaranteeing medical services as a right to all Americans is not only a moral mandate, it is an investment in individual freedom and capacity, in family security and opportunity, as well as community solidarity and peace. The rest of the mature developed world places this priority along side fire departments, schools, and housing as collective public goods guaranteed by the government. Here in the USA this moral mandate has been retarded first by racism (those states which...

By Giridhar Mohan, MPH; Sajal Chattopadhyay PhD., JAMA Oncol. Published online June 18, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.1460 Key Points Question What are the costs of interventions leveraging social determinants of health to improve breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening, and are they cost-effective? Findings In this systematic review of 30 unique economic evaluations, the median intervention cost per participant was $123.87, the median incremental cost per additional person...

Systematic racism is at the core of mental health disparities and social determinants of mental health (SDoMH).Upstream factors obstruct patient access to needed and appropriate assessment, timely intervention, with treatment for these populations often reflecting poorer quality, and ending prior to completion of treatment. COVID-19 and the recent pandemic have only amplified meso and micro-level gaps in care. considered, provided, and reimbursed.