This paper will allow you to explore the public health evidence of the IMPACTS of a specific social determinant of health and its relationship to a health inequity. While at some level, the connection between social conditions and health outcomes are obvious (e.g., homelessness is bad for one's health, poverty makes it difficult to get adequate nutrition), public health research provides more detail about the SIZE of those impacts and the PATHWAYS through which social determinants "get under our skin" and affect health. This analysis can be helpful in a number of ways, for example, Making an argument for the importance of improving social conditions Identifying ways in which we could lessen the negative impacts of social determinants Weighing the relative importance of individual