Post Author: Heather Thompson Buum, MD

Heather Thompson Buum is an internal medicine physician and author of Mirth is God’s Medicine: Coping with Cancer as a Physician. She can be reached at her self-titled site, Heather Thompson Buum.

Heather Thompson Buum is an internal medicine physician and author of Mirth is God's Medicine: Coping with Cancer as a Physician. She can be reached at her self-titled site, Heather Thompson Buum.

The social determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Policy
May 7, 2020

As an academic internist, over the past five years, I’ve been hearing more and more about social determinants of health.  I have read countless journal articles comparing health outcomes; I’ve attended grand rounds on the subject; recently, our electronic medical record changed to incorporate a tab on social determinants of health into the patient’s chart.  As a course director in the medical school, I’ve incorporated this topic into …

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