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Increasing Our Impact by Using a Social-Ecological Approach
2015
The social-ecological model is a theory-based framework for understanding, exploring, and addressing the social determinants of health at many levels. The social-ecological model encourages us to move beyond a focus on individual behavior and toward an understanding of the wide range of factors that influence health outcomes.