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- •Representatives of five expert panels came together to establish conceptual clarity and consensus for what social determinants of health mean for nursing.
- •We define the social determinants of health as having six key dimensions: economic stability, education access and quality (including health literacy), health care access and quality, neighborhood and the built environment, social and community context, and planetary conditions.
- •We provide a specific health policy example for each of the six key areas of the social determinants of health to illustrate how nurses can act to improve population health.
- •We underscore the crucial need to eliminate systematic and structural racism if equity in planetary health-related quality of life is to be attained.
- •Our conceptual framework addresses the particular importance of nursing actions at the individual, family, and population levels to promote health policies that advance health equity, anti-racism, and planetary health-related quality of life.
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