Review Article

Social Determinants of Health, the Chronic Care Model, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Table 1

Whitehead and Dahlgren’s social determinants of health framework components.

Components Examples

(1) General socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental conditions Proximity to industrialized, toxic facilities
(2) Living and working conditionsAgriculture and food production; education; work environment; unemployment; water and sanitation; health care services; housing
(3) Social and community networksSocial capital networks; civic organizations
(4) Individual lifestyle factors Smoking behavior; sexual risk factors
(5) Age, sex, and constitutional factors Biological determinants