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Action on the Social Determinants of Health
Background
'Social determinants of health (SDoH)' is a term used to describe the social and environmental conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, which shape and drive health outcomes.
Factors that determine how the SDH conditions are experienced across societies include the distribution of power, money and resources. Unfair distribution creates avoidable health inequalities, known as ‘health inequities’.
Therefore, social, economic, and environmental factors, as well as political and cultural factors, constitute the ‘social determinants of health’.