David A. Kindig

Feb 16, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jonathan Heller |Marjory L Givens |Sheri P. Johnson |David A. Kindig

When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social determinants of health (SDOH) in 2010, they intentionally included two distinct concepts in their definition, “distinguishing between the mechanisms by which social hierarchies are created, and the conditions of daily life which then result.”1 The WHO continues to include both “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and age” and “the wider...

Jan 19, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | David A. Kindig |Yasmin Mohd Ariffin |Hannah Olson-Williams

Population health scholars have often suggested expanding the list of health determinants to include cultural, political, or religious factors, which traditional metrics do not often cover. In his book called White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity,1 Robert Jones, a former Mississippi evangelical pastor with a PhD in theology from Emory University, discusses the remarkable power of White evangelical Christian culture in the theology that undergirds it.