Financial health as a measurable social determinant of health
134 Citations•2020•
Emily Brown Weida, Pam Phojanakong, Falguni Patel
This study seeks to introduce the construct of financial health into the domain of public health as a useful root term that underlies other individual measures of economic hardship and demonstrate through outcomes on financial, physical and mental health among low-income caregivers of young children that it belongs in the canon of social determinants of health.
Abstract
Financial health can be conceived of and measured as a key social determinant of health.