Social Determinants of Health

  • Patient requiring an interpreter as they don't speak English
  • A child in foster care or in welfare custody
  • An adult lives alone and lacks their own transportation
  • An adult lacks literacy skills
  • Homelessness, risk of homelessness (housing insecurity) or inadequate housing (lack of electricity, plumbing, heat)
  • Extreme poverty causing lack of access to necessities
  • Unemployment
  • Family disruptions i.e. divorce

Source AAO Savvy Code