Center for Health Justice Responds to the NCCIH Request for Information on Determinants of Health

On June 17, the AAMC Center for Health Justice responded to a request for information (RFI) from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) on defining a set of key determinants that address “whole person health,” defined as factors that can influence health either positively or negatively and that encompass the full continuum of biological, behavioral, social, and environmental domain. To inform the list of determinants submitted to the NCCIH, the center invited its community partner network, AAMC CHARGE, to complete a short questionnaire on the factors and social determinants they believed have the greatest impact on health, including determinants that are neglected or under-addressed in research or policymaking.