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Understanding Social Determinants of Health

Diversity Nursing

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and the broader array of influences and structures impacting everyday living. These determinants are the key drivers of health disparities, leading to unjust and preventable health outcomes.

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How Nurses Can Influence Health Equity

Diversity Nursing

For example, some people may live in rural areas where they cannot easily access routine health exams. Others may need help understanding health recommendations due to language barriers. Whatever the disadvantage, health disparities can lead to poor health outcomes that negatively contribute to health equity.

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Implicit bias: More than a buzzword

American Nurse

Addressing implicit bias among healthcare providers is vital to improving patient safety, health outcomes, and access to care. Health inequities, which have grown over time, remain unnecessary, unjust, and avoidable. However, they become problematic when we treat others unfavorably based on those biases.

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Community Health Nurses: Advocates for Underserved Populations

Every Nurse

This limited access to healthcare prevents individuals from receiving timely and appropriate care, leading to poorer health outcomes. Socioeconomic Disparities Socioeconomic disparities significantly contribute to health inequities among underserved populations.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

The EHR combined all pharmacy use by all patients in the complex care management department and calculated pharmacy costs on a per patient per month basis, which is the health insurance industry standard for capturing population health data. An over­view of prevalence, determinants and health outcomes of poly­pharmacy.