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Social Determinants of Health (Unlocked)

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What Are the Social Determinants of Health?

Social determinants of health are not in and of themselves inherently good or bad. They are as is in the name determinants. So it's all of the things sort of social, structural, environmental, political that affect the conditions of your life either positive or negative. The only way to really truly improve health is to improve the health of the collective body at a kind of population level - which would require deep investigations into the social origins of illness. And I think one of the biggest problems as we've been saying is the fact that many,. especially liberal organizations, charities, researchers, people like the WHO, have taken has been to attempt to improve the social determinant of health without addressing these

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