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Social determinants of health are fundamental to supporting medical interventions and improving health outcomes. It is important that a transformed health care system adequately address many supporting factors in addition to patients’ medical needs.
Existing literature suggests that the interaction between one's social circumstances, health behaviors, and the physical environment in which he or she lives all play important and interconnected roles in explaining underlying causal mechanisms.