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ReviewHealth affairs (Project Hope)2016

Evaluating Strategies For Reducing Health Disparities By Addressing The Social Determinants Of Health.

Rachel L J Thornton, Crystal M Glover, Crystal W Cené, Deborah C Glik, Jeffrey A Henderson, David R Williams

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Review in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 260 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

260 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. The social and structural determinants of sexual and reproductive health and rights in migrants and refugees: a systematic review of reviews.Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit · 2021
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  6. Community Health Worker Training Curricula and Intervention Outcomes in African American and Latinx Communities: A Systematic Review.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2021
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  18. The High Cost of American Health Care: Understanding the Deeper Roots of the Crisis.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Rachel L J ThorntonRachel L. J. Thornton is an assistant professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Crystal M GloverCrystal M. Glover is an assistant professor and BMO Harris Bank Health Disparities Research Fellow at the Rush University Medical School, in Chicago, Illinois.
Crystal W CenéCrystal W. Cené is an associate professor in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, at the Chapel Hill School of Medicine, University of North Carolina.
Deborah C GlikDeborah C. Glik is a professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jeffrey A HendersonJeffrey A. Henderson is president and CEO of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
David R WilliamsDavid R. Williams (dwilliam@hsph.harvard.edu) is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts, and a professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Funding

UIC CENTERS FOR POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIESP50CA106743 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI WARNECKE, RICHARD · 2003 to 2016
$19.3M
TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENTP50CA105632 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI PASKETT, ELECTRA D. · 2003 to 2016
$17.2M
TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENTP50CA148596 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SORENSEN, GLORIAN C · 2010 to 2014
$10.7M
STRESS MEASURES/PSYCHOMETRICSP50HL105189 · NHLBI · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI POWELL, LYNDA H · 2010 to 2014
$10.5M
STATISTICSP50HL105185 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL · PI ORDOVAS, JOSE M. · 2010 to 2015
$10.4M
REDUCING DISPARITIES IN HYPERTENSION WITH A PRACTICE-BASED ENHANCED CARE PROGRAMP50HL105184 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI AMMERMAN, ALICE S · 2010 to 2014
$10.1M
Vascular function, cardiovascular disease biomarkers and the Latino paradoxP50HL105188 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI KAPLAN, ROBERT M · 2010 to 2014
$9.9M
TRAINING COREP50HL105187 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GOLDEN, SHERITA HILL · 2010 to 2014
$9.8M
Understanding and preventing breast cancer disparties in LatinasP50CA148143 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI THOMPSON, BETI · 2010 to 2016
$9.7M
USING DIGITAL STORIES TO IMPROVE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING IN NATIVE AMERICANSP50CA148110 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI GONZALES, ANGELA A · 2010 to 2014
$9.7M
Training ProgramU54CA153498 · NCI · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BUCHWALD, DEDRA S, HENDERSON, JEFFREY A · 2010 to 2015
$4.1M
Childhood Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Intergenerational ApproachK23HL121250 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI THORNTON, RACHEL LYN JOHNSON · 2014 to 2018
$913k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The opportunities for healthy choices in homes, neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces can have decisive impacts on health. We review scientific evidence from promising interventions focused on the social determinants of health and discuss how such interventions can improve population health and reduce health disparities. We found sufficient evidence of successful outcomes to support disparity-reducing policy interventions targeted at education and early childhood; urban planning and community development; housing; income enhancements and supplements; and employment. Cost-effectiveness evaluations show that these interventions lead to long-term societal savings, but the interventions require more routine attention to cost considerations. We discuss challenges to implementation, including the need for long-term financing to scale up effective interventions for implementation at the local, state, and national levels.

Indexed as

Child HealthHealthcare DisparitiesHealth Status DisparitiesFemaleHealth PlanningHealth PolicyHealth PromotionHumansMalePolicy MakingPublic HealthRisk AssessmentSocial Determinants of HealthUnited StatesDeterminants Of HealthDisparitiesMinority HealthPublic Health

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PMID27503966
PMCPMC5524193

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