Colorectal Cancer: Social Determinants of Health

What to know

The social determinants of health focus area includes tools and resources to inform and educate about "the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies, racism, climate change, and political systems."1

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Introduction

This page is part of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Change Package.

You've selected a focus area. Next, select a change concept.
Instructions to navigate this page.

Change concepts are "general notions that are useful for developing more specific strategies for changing a process."2 Change ideas are evidence-based or practice-based "actionable, specific ideas or strategies."2 Each change idea is linked to tools and resources that can be used or adapted to improve cancer screening.

Note: See a list of acronyms used in this change package.

Select a change concept:

Change concept: Develop screening programs and jurisdictional cancer control plans and initiatives.

Change concept: Inform policies that can support cancer screening and treatment.

Change concept: Inform about the availability of health insurance coverage.

Change concept: Support employee wellness.

References

1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Social Determinants of Health at CDC.

2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco Cessation Change Package. US Department of Health and Human Services; 2019.

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