Treating the whole patient: Facilitating health care for patients facing health inequity

Treating the whole patient: Facilitating health care for patients facing health inequity

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Social determinants of health (SDOH) are conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.Variations in these conditions are largely responsible for health inequities, the differences in health status or distribution supercharger for dodge durango of health resources within a population.Despite recent increases in attention to SDOH in research and clinical practice, few, if any, resources exist to describe how these complex dynamics impact patients with inborn errors of metabolism.Recognizing the role real-life narratives have as a powerful educational tool, we compiled a series of 3 original cases, published as part of this special supplement, to illustrate challenges and learnings related to SDOH within the context 9002nc of urea cycle disorders and phenylketonuria.