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a thing that controls or influences what happens
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Level of education is often a determinant of income.
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Recent Examples of determinants
In a new secondary analysis of the larger trial published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Patti and her colleagues asked how different social determinants of health affected outcomes after bariatric surgery compared to medical therapy for people with type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 19 Jan. 2026
This research suggests that social determinants of health, including financial stress and food insecurity, may belong in the same conversation.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
Social determinants of health are the parts of ourselves and our environments that drive our health status.
—Jill Inderstrodt, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
Moore suggests focusing on the social determinants of health — providing stable housing and a strong education, for instance — in addition to intervention work.
—Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Many infectious diseases are lethal only for the poor; they are layered atop comorbidities and chronic conditions produced by social and commercial determinants of health.
—Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
However, FQHCs excel in community trust, long-term patient engagement and navigating complex social determinants of health.
—Dr. Ara J. Baghdasarian, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Taxpayer dollars could be put to better use by funding programs and strategies that address specific crime and public order problems and the social determinants that contribute to the root causes of crime and disorder, programs like Mayor Scott’s GVRS.
—Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2025
These somewhat redundant three layers of determinants robustly channel a trajectory of predictable behavior.
—Benjamin Voyer, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 19 Jan. 2026
This research suggests that social determinants of health, including financial stress and food insecurity, may belong in the same conversation.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
Social determinants of health are the parts of ourselves and our environments that drive our health status.
—Jill Inderstrodt, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
Moore suggests focusing on the social determinants of health — providing stable housing and a strong education, for instance — in addition to intervention work.
—Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Many infectious diseases are lethal only for the poor; they are layered atop comorbidities and chronic conditions produced by social and commercial determinants of health.
—Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
However, FQHCs excel in community trust, long-term patient engagement and navigating complex social determinants of health.
—Dr. Ara J. Baghdasarian, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Taxpayer dollars could be put to better use by funding programs and strategies that address specific crime and public order problems and the social determinants that contribute to the root causes of crime and disorder, programs like Mayor Scott’s GVRS.
—Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2025
These somewhat redundant three layers of determinants robustly channel a trajectory of predictable behavior.
—Benjamin Voyer, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for determinants
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Bucks County Bucks County issues a Code Blue whenever temperatures drop below 20 degrees, but could also issue the alert based on other cold-weather factors.—
Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Combined with the capacity to handle multiple ships in a single day, those factors help explain why Bergen continues to lead Norway’s cruise statistics.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Millions upon millions of people are using generative AI as their ongoing advisor on mental health considerations (note that ChatGPT alone has over 900 million weekly active users, a notable proportion of which dip into mental health aspects, see my analysis at the link here).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Other considerations would be the development of nasal polyps or some kind of growth there.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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For Ann Lee, an arthouse musical that counts among its closest antecedents Robert Eggers’ The Witch and the Björk-starring Dancer in the Dark, Blumberg reworked and retrofitted 10 traditional Shaker hymns, and recorded Seyfried and the other actors live on set.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
22 Jan. 2026
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My poem works by multisequencing; in each of the three book-sections there are four narratives, and the reader must gather each piece of the narrative as it unspools and connect it to its antecedents—that yields compression.—
Ange Mlinko,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Oct. 2025
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