Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.¹ Healthy People 2030 uses a framework that includes five different SDOH domains:

• Healthcare Access and Quality
• Education Access and Quality
• Social and Community Context
• Economic Stability
• Neighborhood and Built Environment

Screening Tools

• The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a standardized patient social risk-assessment protocol. This tool helps providers better understand and act on their patients’ social determinants of health.
• https://www.nachc.org/research-and-data/prapare/

¹ Healthy People 2030, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Retrieved 4/8/2021, from https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/social-determinants-health