Achieving Health Equity: How Academic Medicine Is Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

This compilation of 11 articles from the AAMC Reporter’s Addressing Social Determinants of Health series offers a snapshot of strategies launched by medical schools and teaching hospitals to narrow inequities and address social factors that affect community health. The series explores the innovative ways in which academic medicine rises to the challenge of providing quality clinical care to the individual while also addressing social factors in the communities where patients are born, grow, work, and play.