Social Determinants of Health in Surgery

Social Determinants of Health in Surgery: Research Methods and Clinical Review is the first book to focus on social determinants of health in a surgery-specific setting. This book provides a comprehensive overview of social determinants of health within surgery to trainees, health care providers, and researchers working in any surgical discipline as well as policy and health care administration stakeholders overseeing macroscopic clinical changes. To emphasize the scope of the term "social determinants of health," this book performs a deep dive on eleven different domains related to social determinants of health and discusses specialized topics, including big data methodologies and best practices, ethical and global implications, pediatric care, and clinical applications for research. This book serves as a practicum and methodological tutorial for social determinants of health research, including methodological pearls and pitfalls, that can be picked up by a reader at any level of training and in any surgical discipline. Second, it serves as an exhaustive summary of decades of social determinants of health research for ten surgical specialties to highlight salient big picture trends, landmark studies, and existing areas of knowledge deficiencies. This book also incorporates relevant case studies and reflective interviews from the contributors’ own clinical practices.