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Social Determinants Of Health, Center For Business And Economic Research, Gatton College Of Business And Economics, University Of Kentucky Oct 2016

Social Determinants Of Health, Center For Business And Economic Research, Gatton College Of Business And Economics, University Of Kentucky

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What is health? How do we measure the health of a society? Is it merely the clinical outputs of each individual patient or are these numbers impacted by environmental and social factors such as access to healthcare facilities? The answer is yes. Research surrounding health and social services shows a correlation between health outcomes and the environment, calling this junction the Social Determinants of Health (Bradley, et al., 2011; Bradley, et al., 2016; Woolf, et al., 2015). This includes a combination of factors that impact the health of an individual such as: access to food, income, education, physical activity, and …