Opinion | Suffering Endures on the Other Side of the Mpox Curve
I couldn’t remember exactly where I knew him from, but I recognized his large olive-green eyes above his mask when he stopped at my clinic office door. “Hola doctor, me recuerdas [do you remember me]?” he asked excitedly. He said I had helped him during the summer when he had a severe case of monkeypox […]
Opinion | Social Determinants of Health: Measuring What Matters
Since the early 2000s, global health experts have recognized what we know as “social determinants of health” (SDOH) and understood the critical role they play in the health and wellbeing of populations. Collectively, SDOH is a broad range of economic and social conditions – adequate housing and nutrition, access to education, employment, and healthcare services, […]