Sublime

with the psychological and the social as much as the biomedical, primary care (family medicine) being the clearest example

Health is influenced by many factors, which may generally be organized into five broad categories known as determinants of health: genetics, behavior, environmental and physical influences, medical care, and social factors. Of course, these five categories are interconnected.

The malignant transformation of normal cells, in other words, is a process determined by many factors that have at least as much to do with the biopsychosocial state of the organism as with the type of cancer itself.

You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care

Eighty-five percent of surveyed physicians agreed that unmet social needs lead directly to worse health and that patients’ social needs are as important to address as their medical conditions. Physicians further reported that had they the power to write prescriptions to address social needs, these prescriptions would represent one out of every