Empowering Health Literary: Information as a New Social Determinant of Health

Many factors impact our health beyond genetics and aging.  Collectively, these are called the social determinants of health, and factors such as: education, housing, income, occupation, hunger, language, literacy, where we live, and access to affordable health care services. However, there is a gap in the current list of the social determinants of health, and that is the influence of “information” or an “information ecosystem” on patients’ behavior, engagement, and health outcome.

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