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ReviewAmerican journal of preventive medicine2017

The Social Determinants of Chronic Disease.

William C Cockerham, Bryant W Hamby, Gabriela R Oates

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Review in American journal of preventive medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06926855 (Community Health Workers Systematically Assessing and Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Improve Outcomes in Community Health Centers), which is not on this map. Cited by 269 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06926855 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Community Health Workers Systematically Assessing and Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Improve Outcomes in Community Health Centers (CHW-SYSTIM)

TypeinterventionalSponsorMorehouse School of MedicineRan2025 to 2026Enrolled72,726ConditionsUncontrolled Diabetes, Uncontrolled HypertensionArmsCHC-level cluster randomized control trial
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

269 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. The social determinants of health-related quality of life among people with chronic disease: a systematic literature review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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  6. The State of the Evidence about the Family and Community Nurse: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  14. Social determinants drive lymphedema severity and treatment adherence: evidence from a three-year retrospective cohort study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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209 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors.

William C CockerhamDepartment of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;. Electronic address: wcocker@uab.edu.
Bryant W HambyDepartment of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Gabriela R OatesDivision of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

Funding

Molecular and Soc. Determinants of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in YouthU54MD008176 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI FOUAD, MONA N. · 2012 to 2016
$13.7M
UAB K12 in Patient Centered Outcomes ResearchK12HS023009 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI SAAG, KENNETH G · 2014 to 2018
$4.0M
AHRQ HHS K12 HS023009NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD008176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review article addresses the concept of the social determinants of health (SDH), selected theories, and its application in studies of chronic disease. Once ignored or regarded only as distant or secondary influences on health and disease, social determinants have been increasingly acknowledged as fundamental causes of health afflictions. For the purposes of this discussion, SDH refers to SDH variables directly relevant to chronic diseases and, in some circumstances, obesity, in the research agenda of the Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research. The health effects of SDH are initially discussed with respect to smoking and the social gradient in mortality. Next, four leading SDH theories-life course, fundamental cause, social capital, and health lifestyle theory-are reviewed with supporting studies. The article concludes with an examination of neighborhood disadvantage, social networks, and perceived discrimination in SDH research.

Indexed as

Health Status DisparitiesSocial Determinants of HealthChronic DiseaseHealthy LifestyleHumansResidence CharacteristicsSocial Support

Identifiers

PMID27989293
PMCPMC5328595

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