The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes

"This article broadly reviews some of the knowledge accumulated to date that highlights the importance of social - and particularly socioeconomic - factors in shaping health, and plausible pathways and biological mechanisms that may explain their effects. We also discuss challenges to advancing this knowledge and how they might be overcome."

Source: Authored by Paula Braveman and Laura Gottlieb. Published in Public Health Reports.