Social determinants of health is the epitome of a broad inquiry into a 
complex set of relationships. Has it come to this, pithy declarations of 
truth, curt responses, taking either/or positions, and searching out 
data that supports the opinions we already have?

Surely we can do better than this.

On the strength of the data and opinions that have been submitted in the 
last few messages we should just line up the higher ed folks and shoot 
them. If I'm pretty sure that I know better, and everyone else is pretty 
sure they know better, where does that leave us? Jockeying for power and 
position, I suspect, with little progress being made in terms of new 
questions and inquiry, and regurgitating well worn positions.

If useful knowledge is identified by putting it on a scale and waiting 
for the really weighty stuff to lift the fluffy stuff into the air, we'd 
be bidding on it by the pound. By analogy I'd be inclined to think that 
trees, a key component of forests, would be experts on the subject of 
forests. By extension, if I'm an expert on trees I ought to be an expert 
on forests. Nothing could be further from the truth. We ought to know 
this instinctively being as interested and concerned as we are about 
sdoh. Where is this overall conversation on sdoh going?

Bill Braun

Dennis Raphael wrote:
> I told my class yesterday that the community has infinitely more knowledge
> about the key current issues affecting the SDOH than do university types...
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