The PhenX Toolkit: Measurement Protocols for Assessment of Social Determinants of Health.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Social determinants are structures and conditions in the biological, physical, built, and social environments that affect health, social and physical functioning, health risk, quality of life, and health outcomes. The adoption of recommended, standard measurement protocols for social determinants of health will advance the science of minority health and health disparities research and provide standard social determinants of health protocols for inclusion in all studies with human participants.

Methods

A PhenX (consensus measures for Phenotypes and eXposures) Working Group of social determinants of health experts was convened from October 2018 to May 2020 and followed a well-established consensus process to identify and recommend social determinants of health mea

SUBMITTER: Krzyzanowski MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10505248 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature