Permanente Journal Says ‘Upwards of 70%’ Of Our Health Is Determined By Social Factors Beyond Health Care

101: The belief that individuals can “overcome” social inequality and genetics is popular in the U.S. cultural imagination, but it is not substantiated by scientific evidence.

“We now know that upwards of 70% of health outcomes are driven by factors beyond health care and that poverty is associated with more years of lost life than smoking and ob*sity combined.”

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