The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identifies social determinants of health as “the conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play.” Evidence suggests that these factors are as influential on health as access to health care and individual behaviors.
Brain Drain: A Child’s Brain on Poverty
- Neil Damron
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- March 2015
Poverty and the Brain
- Seth Pollak and Barbara Wolfe
- Webinar
- December 17 2014
Poor and In Poor Health
- Dan Simon
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- November 2013
Reducing the effects of poverty through early childhood interventions
- Katherine Magnuson
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- August 2013
The income-Health gradient
- William Evans, Barbara Wolfe, and Nancy Adler
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2013
A biology of misfortune
- W. Thomas Boyce
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2012
Poverty and poor health: Can health care reform narrow the rich-poor gap?
- Barbara Wolfe
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012