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1Human Services Research Institute, 2336 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02140, USA. bcroft@hsri.org.
Abstract:
Social determinants of health-defined by the World Health Organization as "the social factors and physical conditions of the environment in which people are born, live, learn, play, work, and age"-are increasingly discussed as having relevance in community mental health service systems. This brief report describes how self-direction-an approach in which people with serious mental health conditions choose the services and supports that work best for them to support their recovery-is a tool that may directly and uniquely promote the social determinants of health by expanding the bounds of traditional service delivery to address the needs of the whole person.
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