Tag Archives: political determinants

Deportation and the Traumatizing of a Generation

By | June 18, 2020

With less than five weeks to go before welcoming a second child, the patient sat in my exam room in tears. By all accounts, this was a routine appointment at the end of a routine pregnancy. Except on this particular day, clutching family photos from their recent baby shower, the patient shared with me that… Read More »

The SOCIAL Determinants of Health? What About the POLITICAL Determinants of Health?

By | October 4, 2018

The concept that health comes with significant social determinants is everywhere we turn. This idea – that health and health inequities are driven by “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age [and are] shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources”  – is increasingly the focus of articles, research… Read More »