Introduction: Detailed data on social determinants of health can facilitate the identification of
inequities in access to health care. We report on a sociodemographic data collection tool …

Background: Federal, provincial, and municipal organizations in Canada have recently
begun to promote an equity agenda for their health systems, but much of the necessary data …

PHILIP R. LEE, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health and Head of the Public Health Service
Although socioeconomic inequalities in health were high on the public health agenda during …

Background Screening for the social determinants of health in clinical practice is still widely
debated. Methods A scoping review was used to (1) explore the various screening tools that …

Introduction: Health inequities persist in Canada and the United States. Both countries show
differential health status and health care quality by social characteristics, making zip or …

Introduction: Clinician perceptions of patients with low socioeconomic status (SES) have
been shown to affect clinical decision making and health care delivery in this group …

Reduction of health disparities and advancement of health equity in the United States
require high-quality data indicative of where the nation stands vis-a-vis health equity, as well …

Health care leaders in the US are actively exploring strategies to identify and address
patients' social and economic hardships as part of high-quality clinical care. The result has …

Reducing health disparities, primarily those based on race/ethnicity and gender, has long
been a public health priority in the United States, but the first official goal to eliminate health …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the potential for and obstacles to routine monitoring of
socioeconomic inequalities in health using US vital statistics and disease registry data, the …