Knowledge mapping and research trends of the social determinants of health (SDoH): a scientometric analysis
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Xiaoyi Luo
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Shaobin Wang
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Haixia Pu
Abstract
Social determinants of health (SDoH) play an essential role in the risk of developing diseases or medical disorders. Conducting a comprehensive retrospective analysis is necessary to better understand the development status, research hotspots, and development trends of SDoH research. The bibliometric analysis method is applied based on CiteSpace and VOS viewer to quantitatively analyze and visually review the articles published in the field of SDoH from Web of Science core databases from 2000 to 2021. We quantitatively analyzed the author, institution, and other basic information to probe the development of SDoH and then visually investigated the high-frequency keywords, burst keywords, and keyword clusters to understand better the evolution of hotspots and development directions of SDoH during the study period. Health inequality is the main keyword of the SDoH field, and disease burden is expected to maintain a hotspot in recent years. Further, research methodologies could be improved to explain how upstream SDoH influences human lived experience. Additionally, the SDoH field needs to utilize the horizons of the multidisciplinary approach to consider and discuss sustainable development issues to offer implications for health improvement policy and interventions.
Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: 42071377
Acknowledgements
We declare that this paper does not has data collected from human subjects. We declare that there is no professional or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service and/or company that could be construed as influencing the position presented in, or the review of, the manuscript entitled.
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Research funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 42071377).
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- Frontmatter
- Reviews
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- Knowledge mapping and research trends of the social determinants of health (SDoH): a scientometric analysis
- Hospital wastewater treatment methods and its impact on human health and environments
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- Blood and hair copper levels in childhood autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis based on case-control studies
- Cellular and molecular effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields
- Benzo (a) pyrene in infant foods: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and health risk assessment
- Relationship between exposure to heavy metals on the increased health risk and carcinogenicity of urinary tract (kidney and bladder)
- The nexus between economic growth, health expenditure, environmental quality: a comparative study for E7 countries
- Potentially toxic elements in the environment – a review of sources, sinks, pathways and mitigation measures
- Assessment of medical waste generation rate in Viet Nam
- A scoping review of waterborne and water-related disease in the Florida environment from 1999 to 2022
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