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Social Determinants of Health: As Seen in a Courtroom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2024
Abstract
To provide effective care physicians must attend, not just to medical issues, but also to the social determinants of health — racial factors, food insecurity, housing instability, transportation barriers and beyond. Social determinants also include a largely underrecognized dimension: legal vulnerabilities such as rental evictions and debt adjudications. Yet rarely do medical trainees have an opportunity to witness legal vulnerabilities, firsthand.
- Type
- Columns: Currents in Contemporary Ethics
- Information
- Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 51 , Issue 4: Medical-Legal Partnerships: Equity, Evaluation, and Evolution , Winter 2023 , pp. 984 - 987
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- © 2024 The Author(s)