Below are some resources for further reading and engagement on social determinants of health, in BC, Canada and elsewhere. If you know of any other useful resources, feel free to contact us so we can include them here.

Citations & Journal Articles

• Brcic et al. (2011) Development of a tool to identify poverty in a family practice setting: a pilot study, International Journal of Family Medicine

• Sharma et al. (2018) Teaching the social determinants of health: A path to equity or a road to nowhere?, Academic Medicine

• Garg et al. (2015) Addressing social determinants of health at Well Child visits, A cluster RCT, Pediatrics

• Garg et al. (2012) Addressing families’ unmet social needs within pediatric primary care: The Health Leads model within pediatric primary care, Clinical Pediatrics

• Browne et al. (2015) EQUIP Health Care: An overview of a multi-component intervention to enhance equity-oriented care in primary health care settings, International Journal of Equity in Health

• Hooker (2013) Working with the medically underserved, Canadian Family Physician

• Brcic & Christie (2018) Trauma as a determinant of Health, This Changed My Practice, UBC CPD

• Bloch et al. (2011) Barriers to primary care responsiveness to poverty, BMC Family Practice

• Loignon et al. (2010) Physicians’ social competence for people living in poverty: research protocol, BMC Health Services Research

• Kotwani et al. (2011) At the Frontlines : confronting poverty in primary care medicine, IntechOpen

• Garg et al. (2013) Addressing the social determinants of health within the Patient-Centered Medical Home, lessons from pediatrics, JAMA

• Williams et al. (2008) Moving upstream: how interventions that address the social determinants of health can improve health and reduce disparities, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

• Williams et al. (2010), Race, socioeconomic status, and health: Complexities, ongoing challenges, and research opportunities, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

• Braveman et al. (2011) The social determinants of health: coming of age, Annual Reviews in Public Health

• Adelson (2005) The embodiment of inequity, health disparities in Aboriginal Canada, Canadian Journal of Public Health

• De Silva et al. (2005) Social capital and mental illness: systematic review, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

• Jakovljevic et al. (2016) Children’s mental health: is poverty the diagnosis? BC Medical Journal

• Pinto & Bloch (2017) Framework for building primary care capacity to address social determinants of health, Canadian Family Physician

• Kiran & Pinto (2016) Swimming ‘upstream’ to tackle the social determinants of health, BMJ Quality and Safety

• Hughes & Likumahuwa-Ackman (2017) Acting on social determinants of health: a primer, American Family Physician

• Andermann (2016) Taking action on social determinants of health in clinical practice: a framework for health professionals, CMAJ

• Andermann (2011) Addressing social causes of poor health is integral to practicing good medicine, CMAJ

• Murray et al. (1994) Listening to local voices: adapting rapid appraisal to assess health and social needs in general practice, BMJ

• Bradley et al. (2011) Health and social service expenditures: associations with health outcomes, BMJ Quality and Safety

• Ivanova (2011) The Cost of Poverty in BC, Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Murray (2006), Poverty and Health, CMAJ

• Grabovschi et al. (2013) Mapping the concept of vulnerability related to health care disparities: a scoping review, BMC Health Services Research

• Ventres & Gusoff, (2014) Poverty Blindness: exploring the diagnosis and treatment of an epidemic condition, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

• Goel et al. (2016) Social accountability at the micro level: one patient at the time, Canadian Family Physician

• Woollard et al. (2016) Social Accountability at the meso level: into the community, Canadian Family Physician

• Meili et al. (2016) Social accountability at the macro level: framing the big picture, Canadian Family Physician

• Green et al. (2002) Why the disease based model of medicine fails patients, Western Journal of Medicine

• Rylko-Bauer & Farmer (2016), Structural Violence, Poverty and Social Suffering, Oxford Handbooks Online

Media Articles

• Basics for Health jumps in when a prescription is not enough (Vancouver Sun)

• Pain BC’s Connect for Health Program - Support beyond the doctor’s office (Speaker.com)

• This is why poor people’s bad decisions make perfect sense (Huffington Post)

• Poverty Interventions are Health Interventions (Brcic - PolicyNote)

• Anti-poverty movement, meet the culture of medicine (Brcic - PolicyNote)

• That’s “not medicine” - when doctors advocate (CMAJ)

• In Sickness and in Wealth (Briar Patch Magazine)

• Realigning health with care (Stanford Social Innovation Review)

• To manage health costs, invest in social well-being (The Globe and Mail)

• Our health care system isn’t in the position to manage social problems (Huffington Post)

• Canadians giving up food, heat to pay for Rx drugs (UBC)

• Doctor, first tell me what it costs (The New York Times)

• All the lonely people (UC Observer)

• Patient Navigators becoming the norm (CMAJ)

• Politicians who discuss Healthcare without Poverty are missing the point (Huffington Post)

• Do Health and Wealth go together? Doctors at St. Mike’s think so (The Star)

• Beyond Petri Dishes: Social, economic issues need more attention (CBC)

• Why poor people stay poor (Slate)

• The sting of poverty (Boston.com)

• Poverty drives diabetes epidemic (The Star)

• The mental strain of making do with less (The New York Times)

• Why we should give free money to everyone (The Correspondent)

• Basic income is not just about work, it’s about health (The Globe and Mail)

• Why is there so much poverty in a rich country like Canada? (CBC)

• Three ways to end poverty in Canada (The Star)

Videos

• Wellesley Institute, Social Determinants of Health

• Introduction to Upstream (ThinkUpstream.net)

• Stop blaming poverty on the poor (Films for Action)

• If you want to help me, prescribe me money (Gary Bloch - TEDx)

• How and Why to Address Health Inequities in Health Care (Vanessa Brcic - Webinar)

• The role of poverty, trauma and stress in mental health and addictions (Vanessa Brcic & Jenny Morgan - Webinar)

• How economic inequality harms health (Richard Wilkinson - TED)

• What does inequality do to our bodies and minds? (Richard Wilkinson - TED)

• How childhood trauma affects health (Nadine Burke-Harris - TED)

• What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? (Rebecca Onie, HealthLeads USA - TED)

• Unnatural Causes documentary project: Is inequality making us sick? (Unnatural Causes)

SDOH Intervention Tools

• EQUIP healthcare Trauma and Violence-Informed Care Tools

• Centre for Effective Practice Poverty Tools

• Divisions of Family Practice Poverty Tools (BC)

• Clear Collaboration Toolkit (McGill)

• OCFP Poverty Tool

• Health Providers Against Poverty clinical tools inventory

Other Useful Websites

• HealthLeadsUSA

• Harvard University, Toxic Stress

• Canadian Best Practices Portal, SDOH (Public Health Agency of Canada)

• SDOH resource list (OPSEI - BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute)

Organization Publications on SDOH

• Canadian Medical Association, Health Equity and the SDOH

• Canadian Medical Association, What Makes us Sick

• College of Family Physicians of Canada, SDOH Best Advice Guide

• Ontario College of Family Physicians, Primary Care Interventions into Poverty

• OPHA Basic Income Guarantee Backgrounder

• WHO, Closing the gap, action on SDOH

• PHAC, Canada’s Response to the WHO Commission on SDOH

• PHAC, Reducing Health Disparities, Role of the Health Sector

• Institute of Health Equity, The Marmot Review (Fair Societies, Healthy Lives)

• Broadbent Institute, The Wealth Gap Perceptions and Misconceptions in Canada

• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) Canadian Population Health Initiative: The Impact of Poverty on Health

• RWJF, Self-Healing Communities

• Commonwealth Fund, A business case for addressing patients’ social needs

• NCTSN (USA), Impact of Trauma and Urban Poverty on Family Systems