genetics – Drivers of Health

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What is known about drivers of health: a literature review

Posted: August 26, 2019

While there is widespread understanding that the health system and other factors — social determinants — affect health, we know relatively little about their precise contributions to health differences across a population at a point in time or differences in health of a fixed population over time.

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Tags: decompositions, education, environment, genetics, health care, income, medical care, racial identity, social circumstances, social status, wealth

What Causes AIDS Deaths?

By Austin Frakt

Posted: June 13, 2019

Here’s a puzzle: To what would you attribute deaths from AIDS today? Genetics? Behavior? Social or environmental factors? The health system (or its failure)? Something else? Once you have your answer, how would you know it was right? How would you test it? What evidence would you need? What studies would you do?

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Tags: AIDS, behavior, environmental, genetics, health system, mortality, social