social determinants of health
Social determinants of health are the social, economic, environmental, and institutional conditions that shape health and wellbeing. School exclusion, poverty, racism, disability discrimination, housing insecurity, and caregiver strain can all affect children’s health trajectories.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…