Financial health as a measurable social determinant of health.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Financial health, understood as one's ability to manage expenses, prepare for and recover from financial shocks, have minimal debt, and ability to build wealth, underlies all facets of daily living such as securing food and paying for housing, yet there is inconsistency in measurement and definition of this critical concept. Most social determinants research and interventions focus on siloed solutions (housing, food, utilities) rather than on a root solution such as financial health. In light of the paucity of public health research on financial health, particularly among low-income populations, this study seeks to: 1) introduce the construct of financial health into the domain of public health as a useful root term that underlies other individual measures of economic hardship a

SUBMITTER: Weida EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7233592 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature