Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Care—Where Do We Go from Here?
Cet article américain décrit les axes de recherche du "National Cancer Institute" concernant l'utilisation et la qualité des soins dédiés aux patients atteints d'un cancer en insistant sur les risques sociaux, notamment l'évaluation de l'insécurité alimentaire, l'instabilité du logement et les obstacles liés au transport
Social determinants of health (SDOH) include the non-medical factors that contribute todisease risks and health care outcomes; social risk factors reflect these non-medical variables at an individual level. Now more than everand address social risk factors among patients to improve health care quality and outcomes. It is also anticipated that mitigating social risks in clinical settings will enhance equity among disparity populations. As a result, efforts are now being made to screen patients for social risk factors, provide services to address these issues as part of delivering health care, and/or link patients to community-based social service agencies and organizations. The results presented by Sanchez and colleagues in this issue demonstrate that the implementation of efforts to address social risk factors among cancer patients may be outpacing empirical data and the evidence base about the efficacy of strategies to screen patients for these factors and adjust, assist, or align cancer care to respond to social risks.