Background In recent decades, the social determinants of health (SDOH) has gained
increasing prominence as a foundational concept for population and public health in …

Policy Points: Many barriers hamper advocacy for health equity, including the contemporary
economic zeitgeist, the biomedical health perspective, and difficulties cooperating across …

This completely revised second edition of the best-selling text presents an up-to-date,
comprehensive introduction to persuasive communication and attitude change. Employing …

This entry provides an introduction to social determinants of health (SDH), reviews existing
research on the influence of SDH on health outcomes and health inequities, and suggests …

US media has extensively covered racial disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths,
which may ironically reduce public concern about COVID-19. In two preregistered studies …

Informed by theory and research on attributions and narrative persuasion, we compared the
effectiveness of narrative and nonnarrative messages in changing attributions of …

Two studies investigated the impact of affective and cognitive messages compared to a no-
message control on self-reported exercise. Students (Study 1, N= 383 and Study 2, N= 197) …

Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy
attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how …

REUTTER L and KUSHNER KE. Nursing Inquiry 2010; 17: 269–280 'Health equity through
action on the social determinants of health': taking up the challenge in nursing Reducing …

Background Many people deny science and reject health recommendations despite widely
distributed facts and statistics. Didactic science and health communication is often dry, and …