Social determinants of health are the non-medical conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that shape their health and well-being. They include factors such as income, education, employment, housing, food security, access to health care, social support, and the broader economic and policy envir…
Social determinants of health are the non-medical conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that shape their health and well-being. They include factors such as income, education, employment, housing, food security, access to health care, social support, and the broader economic and policy environment. These determinants help explain why health is not distributed evenly across a population: differences in social and economic circumstances produce systematic health inequities between groups defined by socioeconomic status, geography, race or ethnicity, and other characteristics. Studying social determinants, often through population data and health statistics, allows researchers to quantify disparities, identify their drivers, and evaluate interventions aimed at making health outcomes more equitable. Within this journal's scope on health statistics, related research includes a study of horizontal inequities in the uptake of hospital delivery and the role of social determinants in China, which uses statistical methods to examine inequality in maternal health-service use, and work on social capital and the health outcomes of elderly people, addressing how social resources relate to well-being. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to social determinants of health and the measurement of health inequities across populations.
11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 11 articles above have been cited 7 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Social Determinants of Health, linking to each citing work.