Social and Health-System Factors That Affect Health: What’s Known and Knowable?

This literature review provides an overview of the scholarly work on the drivers of health. Including historical background on the work done in the last forty years to quantify the contributions of various factors to health and efforts to decompose health outcomes into several key determinants.

This product is from Drivers of Health, a one-year research and education project aimed at improving understanding of the social determinants of health.