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Item Awareness of racial and socioeconomic health disparities in the United States: the national opinion survey on health and health disparities, 2008-2009(2011) Booske, Bridget C; Robert, Stephanie A; Rohan, Angela M KItem US opinions on health determinants and social policy as health policy.(2011) Robert, Stephanie A; Booske, Bridget CTo examine what factors the public thinks are important determinants of health and whether social policy is viewed as health policy, we conducted a national telephone survey of 2791 US adults from November 2008 through February 2009. Respondents said that health behaviors and access to health care have very strong effects on health; they were less likely to report a very strong role for other social and economic factors. Respondents who recognized a stronger role for social determinants of health and who saw social policy as health policy were more likely to be older, women, non-White, and liberal, and to have less education, lower income, and fair/poor health. Increasing public knowledge about social determinants of health and mobilizing less advantaged groups may be useful in addressing broad determinants of health.