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Social Determinants of Health

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The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) topic includes research on individual and structural social determinants of health to improve understanding, design, and implementation of effective interventions to reduce health disparities.

SDOH refer to conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and worship that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

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