Question

What have been the empirical results for the health status of the patient community when the social determinates of health have been addressed by a health care system? If this information is not available, please describe the steps that you took to confirm this fact.

Answer 1

empirical results in US health and health care inequalities in social determinants like ethnicity, income, poverty, education, unemployment, housing, and geographic disparities cause a health risk, poor quality health care and increase mortality and morbidity rate. when social determinants of health have been addressed by the health care system by reducing obesity, smoking following healthy diets, avoiding substance use and improving access to health care services improve population health and equality. It improves access to education, housing, income, employment, transportation and social and welfare service. It is a multisectoral approach that includes everything along with economic sectors to avoid health inequalities. when there is colloboration between private and public sectors, various stakeholders in local and state agencies with a community-based approach can reduce health disparity.