The Commission was formed to investigate why Americans aren’t as healthy as they could be and to look outside the health care system for ways to improve health for all.
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July 7, 2011 | Program Result
The World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health met in New Orleans from November 18-20, 2007 to discuss how social factors - such as access to money, education and safe housing - impact people's overall health and longevity.
November 24, 2010 | Program Result
The Council on Foundations and its consultants identified the lessons learned about successfully expanding programs that can be used to inform the structure of the national Social Innovation Fund.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
The journal Health Services Research published a supplemental issue designed to educate researchers on a range of social and other non-medical factors that influence health, including social and economic status, ethnicity and race.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result
Since the 1960's, social scientists and people interested in community well-being have used social indicators to monitor quality of life in communities across the country.
August 16, 2005 | Program Result
Jo Phelan, PhD, and Bruce Link, PhD, sociologists and epidemiologists at Columbia University, elaborated and tested their theory that certain social conditions, such as socioeconomic status, may be fundamental causes of diseases.
February 1, 2001 | Program Result
The National Public Health and Hospitals Institute, Washington, analyzed health and sociodemographic factors in the 100 largest U.S. cities and disseminated the findings.
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Institute for Social Research held a conference entitled "Health Effects of Non-Health Policy," on the impacts of nonhealth policy on the health of individuals and the American population.
November 26, 2012 | Program Result
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
April 20, 2012 | Program Result
Close to Home, a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization, using a community-mobilization approach to prevent domestic violence, launched an effort to replicate its prevention program in three communities in Massachusetts.
March 13, 2012 | Program Result
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence replicated and evaluated two violence prevention programs: the Good Behavior Game (used in first or second grade) and CASASTART (for adolescents aged 11-13).