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ArticleCurrent opinion in psychology2015

Social Determinants and Health Behaviors: Conceptual Frames and Empirical Advances.

Susan E Short, Stefanie Mollborn

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Article in Current opinion in psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 266 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

266 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Impact of Life-Context Factors on Chronic Rhinosinusitis 22-Item Sinonasal Outcomes Test: Systematic Review + Meta-Analysis.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  2. Monitoring and evaluation instruments of individual health in community settings: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026
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  11. The Social, Behavioral, and Ethical Modalities of COVID-19 on HIV Care in South Africa: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Susan E ShortDepartment of Sociology, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
Stefanie MollbornInstitute of Behavioral Science and Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 483, Boulder, CO 80309-0483, USA.

Funding

Spatial Analysis CoreR24HD041020 · NICHD · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI FOSTER, ANDREW D. · 2001 to 2016
$7.4M
TRAINING IN DEMOGRAPHYT32HD007338 · NICHD · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI ANDREW D. FOSTER · 1987 to 2026
$7.0M
University of Colorado Population CenterP2CHD066613 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI JANE A MENKEN · 2015 to 2026
$3.7M
The University of Colorado Population CenterR24HD066613 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI PAMPEL, FRED C · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD066613NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD041020NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD066613NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health behaviors shape health and well-being in individuals and populations. Drawing on recent research, we review applications of the widely applied "social determinants" approach to health behaviors. This approach shifts the lens from individual attribution and responsibility to societal organization and the myriad institutions, structures, inequalities, and ideologies undergirding health behaviors. Recent scholarship integrates a social determinants perspective with biosocial approaches to health behavior dynamics. Empirical advances model feedback among social, psychological and biological factors. Health behaviors are increasingly recognized as multidimensional and embedded in health lifestyles, varying over the life course and across place and reflecting dialectic between structure and agency that necessitates situating individuals in context. Advances in measuring and modeling health behaviors promise to enhance representations of this complexity.

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PMID26213711
PMCPMC4511598

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