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Healthy population equals healthy economy

I attended the H20, an international health summit hosted by the World Medical Association. Without a healthy, productive citizenship, a country can’t be economically stable. Addressing the social determinants of health is crucial to building a strong economic foundation, and eliminating health disparities is something we physicians should continue to work toward.

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What future doctors need to know about health determinants

Tomorrow’s doctors are learning more about socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation and other social determinants of health. Physicians nationwide support integrating more training on the social determinants of health into undergraduate medical education—they voted to make it AMA policy at the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting.

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Neighborhood socioeconomic status associated with readmissions

According to a study published online last week by the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes by the American Heart Association, patients hospitalized for heart failure are more likely to be readmitted within six months if they live in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status.

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