Tagged With "PDoH"
Blog Post
Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms
Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.
Comment
Re: Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms
Well, said! I hope this post and your concerns gain a wide audience among PACES membership. The basic problem is access to needed and beneficial medical and mental health services for all Americans - that would be an equitable health system. SDOH (social determinants of health), CDOH (commercial) and PDOH (political - even within the analysis by Dawes from the Satcher Institute) are all convenient euphemisms allowing everyone to politely, clinically, and academically avoid dealing with the...