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Assessment Focused on Social Determinants of Health <br />✚Social determinants of health (SDOH) represent the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, work, play, worship and age that affect a wide range of health functioning and quality-of-life outcomes and risks <br />✚Examples of SDOH✚Healthy Behaviors –Rates of smoking, access to nutritious foods, physical activities✚Exposure to violence, racism, and discrimination✚Living Conditions –Safe housing, water, air✚Economic Conditions –Income, job opportunities, education <br />✚Significant research has been done linking the impact of SDOH to quality of life, health disparities, and life expectancies <br />✚These factors increased risk of exposure and severity of the most recent COVID experience <br />5Source: Healthy People, 202, US Department of HHS, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion