Over the last several months, my co-editor Dr. Joachim Voss and I had the pleasure of editing CNR’s special issue on the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). In this process we read and reviewed dozens of papers on topics ranging from refugee health needs to health literacy and working with vulnerable young adults. One of the most exciting parts of this work was seeing all the ways that the SDoH were operationalized across so many issues of health and health-related conditions, and how nurses and nurse scientists address them. Editing this special issue made me realize how important it is that we recognize the ways nurses implement translational health care to manage the SDoH every day.

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