Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) at ob体育

At a glance

ob体育 has taken multiple steps to ensure that efforts to address the social determinants of health (SDOH) are built into the agency’s work and not confined to a single program, ob体育 center, or public health topic.

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ob体育's Social Determinants of Health Framework

In fall 2021, ob体育 leadership started an agencywide process to build and expand cross-cutting efforts to address SDOHA. This effort was led by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) and resulted in a framework of six pillarsB:

Data and surveillance: Embed a consistent SDOH approach to standardization, collection, analysis, and dissemination of data across the agency.

Evaluation and evidence building: Advance evaluation and build evidence for strategies that address SDOH to reduce disparities and promote health equity.

Partnerships and collaboration: Establish criteria, actionable steps, and strategies for partnerships, collaborations, and relationships that result in improved health outcomes over the long term.

Community engagement: Foster meaningful, sustained community engagement across all phases of ob体育 intervention planning and implementation.

Infrastructure and capacity: Strengthen and sustain infrastructure such as workforce, training, and access to financial resources required to address SDOH and reduce health disparities.

Policy and law: Identify evidence, tools, and resources to enhance communication about policies that affect SDOH with policy makers and other stakeholders.

ob体育 is using this framework to help agency leadership make decisions about where to invest SDOH resources.

This is a visual representation of the text in this section, showing SDOH at the center of the circle and the six pillars of ob体育's work to address SDOH in a ring around the edge.
This graphic shows the six pillars of ob体育’s work to address SDOH.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  1. Prevention of Social Determinants of Health. Updated March 29, 2022. Accessed July 8, 2022.
  2. Hacker K, Houry D. . Public Health Rep. 2022; Sep 9:00333549221120244.
  • Hacker K, Auerbach J, Ikeda R, Philip C, Houry D; SDOH Task Force. . J Public Health ManagPract. 2022;28(6):589-594. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001626