Determinants of Health: Factors that contribute to a person's current state of health. These factors may be biological, socioeconomic, psychosocial, behavioral, or social in nature (Center for Disease Control).

Social Determinants of Health: The Social Determinants of Health is a phrase very notably written about in Kathryn Ratliff's "The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream." This looks at the many ways society is structured inequitably, specifically looking at the ways racial inequity is present in society, and how this is a major factor in causing racial and health disparities.