CHAPTER 7 Social Determinants of Health and the Role of Law in Optimizing Health
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this chapter you will be able to:
Describe the meaning of social determinants of health and the significance of social factors on individual and population health?
Describe how law can create or perpetuate health-harming social conditions?
Explain how law can be used to ameliorate health-harming social conditions?
Understand how innovative interventions to improve health, such as medical-legal partnership, can help address health- harming social conditions at the individual and population levels