A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities

Regardless of many years of efforts to handle healthcare inequities in the USA via applications and insurance policies focusing on social determinants of well being, disparities persist throughout racial, gender, socioeconomic, and geographic strains. Systematic critiques of hospital methods’ initiatives and applications to handle social determinants of well being (SDOH) have revealed unsatisfactory progress. Some attribute the gradual progress to inadequate standardization and sharing of learnings throughout communities, or the underinvestment in SDOH knowledge and measurement.