University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Creat Nurs. 2023 Aug;29(3):243-247. doi: 10.1177/10784535231205607. Epub 2023 Nov 17.
The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as "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." This current journal issue has the theme of structural determinants of health. In 2016 ( Vol. 22), we published 49 articles in four issues addressing Determinants of Health: Social Determinants, Structural Determinants, Caregiver Determinants, and Global Determinants. This editorial presents the highlights of those four journal issues, then connects each of the articles in this current issue to the theme; these articles reveal the systems and structures that support our caring from many angles, levels, and perspectives. Readers are challenged to recognize the potential, embedded in every system and structure, for disparities in the provision of our care.
世界卫生组织将健康的社会决定因素定义为“人们出生、成长、工作、生活和衰老的条件,以及塑造日常生活条件的更广泛的力量和系统”。本期期刊主题为健康的结构性决定因素。2016 年(第 22 卷),我们在四期期刊中发表了 49 篇文章,主题为健康决定因素:社会决定因素、结构性决定因素、照护者决定因素和全球决定因素。本社论介绍了这四期期刊的重点,然后将本期的每一篇文章与主题联系起来;这些文章从多个角度、层面和观点揭示了支持我们照护的系统和结构。读者面临的挑战是认识到每个系统和结构中存在的差异,这些差异可能会影响我们提供的护理。