The social determinants of health (SDOH) framework has proven useful for research and practice in addressing the social causes of many health outcomes. However, its limitations may restrict its value as the world undergoes rapid ecological and social change. We argue that SDOH does not adequately incorporate rapidly changing or "far upstream" social processes (particularly social movements), the dialectics of social conflict and creative social innovation, or bidirectional causation. Ecosocial t
Dialectical Processes of Health Framework as an Alternative to Social Determinants of Health Framework
Samuel R. Friedman·Jerzy Eisenberg‐Guyot·Suzan M. Walters·Pedro Mateu‐Gelabert·Ashly E. Jordan·Georgios K. Nikolopoulos·David C. Perlman·Diana Rossi
