Social Determinants of Health
"Social Determinants of Health" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics (http://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/).
| Descriptor ID |
D064890
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N01.224.425.762 N01.400.675
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2020 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2021 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2022 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2023 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2024 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Social Determinants of Health" by people in Profiles.
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Understanding the impact of social determinants of health in hematology: a scoping review of trends across journals and over time. Blood Adv. 2026 Apr 28; 10(8):2801-2816.
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Sociodemographic and Clinical Predictors of Mortality in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Apr 07; 15(7):e045411.
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Utilizing a Health Equity Framework to Explore Patient-Level Factors Impacting Effective Hypertension Management Across Two Academic Health Systems. Med Care Res Rev. 2026 Apr; 83(2):144-155.
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Identifying and mitigating the biological effectors of the social determinants of health in cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Oct 01; 117(10):1981-1983.
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Improving American Indian Adolescent and Young Adult Cardiovascular Health: The Importance of the Strong Heart Family Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Oct 07; 14(19):e042895.
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The impact of social determinants of health on outcomes of brexucabtagene autoleucel in adults with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2025 Nov; 60(11):1465-1471.
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Disparities in Health Care in Patients With Chronic Liver Disease. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2025 Aug 01; 59(7):607-620.
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Access to digital health technologies: personalized framework and global perspectives. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2026 01; 23(1):9-22.
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Social determinants of health and access to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia. Blood. 2025 Jun 19; 145(25):3041-3051.
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Impact of sociodemographic determinants on enrollment into contemporary lymphoma clinical trials: a systematic review. Oncologist. 2025 Jun 04; 30(6).