AI Article Synopsis
- Effective healthcare requires physicians to address not only medical problems but also social determinants of health, such as race, food and housing insecurity, and transportation issues.
- Legal vulnerabilities, like evictions and debt issues, are also crucial social factors affecting health but are often overlooked.
- Medical trainees seldom have the chance to see these legal vulnerabilities in real-life situations, which limits their understanding of the full context of patient health.
Article Abstract
To provide effective care physicians must attend, not just to medical issues, but also to the social determinants of health - racial factors, food insecurity, housing instability, transportation barriers and beyond. Social determinants also include a largely underrecognized dimension: legal vulnerabilities such as rental evictions and debt adjudications. Yet rarely do medical trainees have an opportunity to witness legal vulnerabilities, firsthand.
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