Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources at HSLS

The Healthy People program, out of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, defines social determinants of health this way: 

"Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks."

Social determinants of health can be broken out broadly into 5 domains:

• Economic Stability
• Education Access and Quality
• Health Care Access and Quality
• Neighborhood and Built Environment
• Social and Community Context

Further information is available on the HSLS Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health Guide

Licensed HSLS Resources:

Please note: The links in this section are accessible with Pitt credentials only.

• The body's keepers: a social history of kidney failure and its treatments, Kimmel, Paul L. (2024)
• Community health equity research & policy, journal available from 2021, volume: 42 to present
• Culture of health in practice: innovations in research, community engagement, and action, Plough, Alonzo L., editor (2020)
• Death gap: how inequality kills, Ansell, David A. (2017)
• Essentials of health, culture, and diversity: understanding people, reducing disparities, Edberg, Mark Cameron (2023)
• International journal of social determinants of health and health services, journal available from 2023, volume: 53 to present 
• Just health: treating structural racism to heal America, Matthew, Dayna Bowen (2022)
• Medical and psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability, Falvo, Donna R. (2018)
• The political determinants of health,  Dawes, Daniel E. (2020)
• Psychological and social impact of illness and disability, Marini, Irmo, Stebnicki, Mark A., editors (2018)
• Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader, LaVeist, Thomas A., Isaac, Lydia A., editors (2013)
• Racism and psychiatry: contemporary issues and interventions, Medlock, Morgan M., Shtasel, Derri, Trinh, Nhi-Ha T., Williams, David R., editors (2019)
• Racism: science and tools for the public health professional, Ford, Chandra L., Griffith, Derek M., Bruce, Marino A., Gilbert, Keon L., editors (2019)
• Refugee health care: an essential medical guide, Annamalai, Aniyizhai, editor (2014)
• Social determinants of health in surgery: a primer for the practicing surgeon, Obeng-Gyasi, Samilia, Pawlik, Timothy M., editors (2024)
• Social Explorer Data Maps
• Structural competency in mental health and medicine: a case-based approach to treating the social determinants of health, Hansen, Helena, Metzl, Jonathan M., editors (2019)
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Smedley, Brian D. (2002)

Publicly Available Resources:

• Necessary conversations: understanding racism as a barrier to achieving health equity, Plough, Alonzo L., editor (2022)
• Social Explorer Guide: Public Health
• Social Explorer Guide: Psychology
• Racial disparities in clinical medicine: conversations, perspectives and research on advancing medical equity