It has almost become a truism to attribute the causes of diseases to social determinants of health (SDOH). By one estimate, SDOH account for 60% of premature death in the United States. According to the CDC, SDOH are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. While… Continue reading The Person and the Situation
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The Systems Above
The 17th century poet, John Donne, famously wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.” In reality, even an island is not an island - structurally or functionally. Islands are separated (or connected) - depending on perspective or purpose - to… Continue reading The Systems Above