SDoHTweets

A multisector praxis convener amplifying ideas🧠actions🚦& insights💡 across silos to address the social determinants of health. Creator of #SDoHTwitter 🚫a bot

[Lancet Commission on RSDGH @RSDGHcommission]

@oneillinstitute @TheLancet @udnore @drtlaleng @SarahBosha @FordFoundation @AttiyaWaris If you weren’t able to make our event “Advancing Health Equity: Time To Address Racism And Structural Discrimination in Global Health,” you can watch recording here: https://t.co/OWaYzjwhcJ.

Join us to learn about how to build #HealthEquity moving forward

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Addressing #SDOH starts with putting the right people with the right skills in a decision making position to be a connecting force. Looking forward to see how this role can/will accelerate closing equity gaps for #HUD

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Price is the battleground for health outcomes.

[Hari Kunzru @harikunzru]

In line at pharmacy. Woman in front of me picking up a prescription for her kid. "That'll be $819" says the pharmacist. She looks stunned. "For one month?" "Sixty pills," he tells her. They leave without the medicine.

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Yes x 1000. Examples include lack of cultural competency between providers and patients, criminal justice reform, public education, voting rights. We will not tech our way to a brighter future, but how the the investments for social solutions are distributed say otherwise.

[Ind @clinpsych_ind]

Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model adapted for Black youth development and attachment processes in context (Stern et al., 2021). thank you for letting me draw this @JessAStern !

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

You know what hurts workers more than the cost of milk? The cost of childcare.

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Public comment open to help shape @PCORI national priorities. Weigh in! #sdoh #sdohtwitter #healthequity #outcomes
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[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Addressing the social determinants of health is hard. We know that. However, don't let the risk of your unique solution being dismissed or criticized by others discourage you from trying to create the future we need. #SDOH #sdohtwitter #BeBRAVE

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

It’s easy to criticize, hard to create.

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

If your solutions don't acknowledge and account for this, they won't go very far.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Can anyone name social, political or economic institution in American society where widespread racial disparities or discrimination does NOT exist?

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Intention and action are powerful equalizers. #publicpolicy + #politicalwill + #communitycommitment + #AccountabilityCulture

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Housing + Civil Rights = Better Health Outcomes

[Secretary Marcia L. Fudge @SecFudge]

During #FairHousingMonth and every month, we are focused on putting fair housing and civil rights back at the forefront of HUD’s mission.

Together, we can put an end to unlawful housing discrimination and advance equity for communities historically left out.

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

This thread is a great example of how one-size-fit-all solutions i.e. "go to the website" further extends disparities and negative narratives. Solute to the volunteers and organizers who actually--wait for it--TALKED DIRECTLY TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. #wordofmouth #vaccine

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

The learning from this example is that leaders can and will produce centuries long impact with just one decision. The ultimate decision maker's bias can add enumerable costs to society. Our selection of health leaders has to be a point of intervention when addressing #sdoh #AMA

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Justice starts w/recognition of wrongdoing. The AMA recognizes the historical decisions of their early leaders [in their words] "led to a host of inequities and injustices in health care that remain today." Repairing such injustices is re-work disguised as 21st century problems.

[AMA @AmerMedicalAssn]

As we grapple with AMA’s 174-year history, we must acknowledge that decisions by AMA leaders contributed to a health care system plagued by inequities. While we can’t erase history, we can decide the appropriate way to recognize individuals from our past. https://t.co/ZgoUghF6JU

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Our public health infrastructure has far more needs than we could imagine. Fundamental shifts are needed. When officials can't safely exist in their roles, how do you expect the people that need resources to thrive? #employeesafety #SDoHTwitter #sdoh

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Police are investigating shots fired into the home of Dr. Mary Kate Francis, the Ohio Department of Healthassistant medical director. Dr. Amy Acton, former director of the department, resigned after backlash and threats due to COVID restrictions. #ohleg https://t.co/YJ5GfppFor

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

#Flint #FlintWaterCrisis Never forget! POLICY, ACCOUNTABILITY, & ACTION should be the mantra for 2021 to help communities receive justice. #sdoh #SDoHTwitter How will you link with officials to get justice for your communities this year?

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and other ex-officials have been told they’ll be charged in the Flint water scandal, two people with knowledge of the planned prosecution tell AP. Lead-contaminated water devastated the majority Black city. https://t.co/qiYMKn8yqA

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

@doccrearperry Thanks for keeping us focused @doccrearperry ! #SDoHTwitter

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

Facts

[Joia Crear Perry @doccrearperry]

@Carol_MMcDonald We can’t keep saying we want to improve the social determinants of health and end the root causes of Racism, Classism, and Gender Oppression; but still act as if Healthcare is the only answer. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

The heart of #SDoHTwitter speaks through the words of @klts0 here. Rely and respect the lived experience and perspective of the people versus dictating an outside perspective that will bare little to no fruit in actually solving the problem(s) at hand. #mph #publichealthschool

[Keletso Makofane, MPH, PhD (he/him/his) @klts0]

An insidious message we get @ public health school is that poor people can’t think - that they need white 23 year old MPHs to figure out what the problem is and what to do about it, or worse, to “empower” them. (lol).

this project is important be because it assumes the opposite

[SDoHTweets @SDoHTweets]

This needs to be the mantra from here on out. #SDoHTwitter ask the community directly and make their insights the central part of any strategy. Thank you @sdbaral!

[Stefan Baral @sdbaral]

@KwadCast https://t.co/VCh5tbcxLC

Communities ALWAYS know better than public health.

Why?

Because similar to public health, they want their communities to thrive. But with more insight into values and preferences of delivery.

Let's get back to delivering with rather than for people.