The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, learn, worship, play, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. “These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at the global, national, and local levels.”

(WHO, 2019)

Learning Objectives

• • Define and identify the social determinants of health
  • Understand how current US drug policy undermine social determinants of health
  • Understand the role of the social determinants of health in the overdose crisis
  • Analyze how harm reduction strategies address the social determinants of at an individual level which improves community outcomes