This category has articles that provide an in depth explanation of the social determinants of health. The articles focus on the elements that impact health more prominently than actual medical care.

• Buoying Health By Building Communities, 2012, Susan Dentzer
• Commission on Social Determinants,2007
• Housing and Health, 2011, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• How Does Where We Live, Work, Learn & Play Affect Our Health?, 2011, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Looking Upstream, 2011, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Michigan State Health Equity Road Map, 2011
• Neighborhoods and Health, 2011, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Promoting Equity through the Practice of Health Impact Assessments, 2013, Policy Link
• Pursuing Health Equity: Zoning Codes and Public Health, 2011, Ransom, Greiner, Kochtitzky & Major
• Reducing Childhood Obesity in Ontario through a Health Equity Lens, 2012, Steve Barnes
• What Shapes Health in Early Childhood, 2011, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Why Place Matters: Building a Movement for Healthy Communities, 2007, Policy Link

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