Determinants of health
Framing
- Health outcomes are shaped by a combination of individual characteristics/behaviours, socioeconomic circumstances, environmental factors, and the underlying prevalence of medical conditions in a population - understanding this broader determinants framework, not just individual disease biology, is essential to genuinely effective clinical and public health practice
- Addressing only the biomedical disease process while ignoring the socioeconomic and environmental context driving it often limits the real-world effectiveness of otherwise appropriate treatment
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