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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Hematol. 2023 Mar;16(sup1):87–106. doi: 10.1080/17474086.2023.2183836

Table 2.

Six categories of social determinants of health that may impact health outcomes [57,58].

Category Examples

Economic stability
• Employment and job characteristics
• Income
• Expenses
• Debt
• Medical bills
• Support
Neighborhood and physical environment
• Housing
• Transportation
• Safety
• Parks
• Playgrounds
• Walkability
• Zip code/geography
Education
• Literacy
• Language
• Early childhood education
• Vocational training
• Higher education
Food
• Hunger
• Access to health options
Community and social context
• Social integration
• Support systems
• Community engagement
• Discrimination stress
Health care system
• Health coverage
• Provider availability
• Provider linguistic and cultural competency
• Quality of care