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[BDSP. Notice produite par IRDES 8BR0xnAo. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This special supplement to Public Health Reports focuses on data systems and their use in addressing social determinants of health (SDH) - the underlying economic and social conditions that influence the health of individuals and communities as a whole. This supplement brings attention to the increasing burden and inequities in some health outcomes, as well as the use of data to expand the knowledge base on SDH. In his special commentary : The Ultimate Measures of Health, Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard K. Koh discusses the need for a broad health in all policies approach to public health for the 21st century. Similarly, in their guest editorial, Drs. Kathleen McDavid Harrison and Hazel D. Dean of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe the need for a holistic approach to disease prevention that involves addressing not only individual, social, structural, and environmental determinants, but also working with a wide array of government and private sector organizations, including health, education, justice, environment, and labor. In turn, this holistic approach requires using diverse kinds of data such as surveillance, legal, land use, marketing, workforce, education, and financial. Several articles within the supplement describe novel ways to use surveillance data from both national and state-level data collection systems, while others demonstrate innovative ways of linking labor, housing, and policy data with public health data to assess health outcomes. Additionally, experts provide specific viewpoints on gender equity as a social determinant, the use of public health law research to address SDH, and psychosocial factors affecting health.
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