Professor Laura Hoffman has published an article titled “Putting the ‘Social’ into Social Determinants of Health: Why Policymaking for Improving Health Must Tackle Social Isolation and Loneliness,” in the Oklahoma Law Review.

The article “explores what is known about loneliness and social isolation in the United States and examines how law and policy can play a role in being part of reducing their impact on health.” In the piece, Professor Hoffman conducts “an examination of a sample of current legislative efforts to put loneliness and social isolation at the forefront now given the significant influence on health.”

She articulates a set of policy recommendations, arguing that “it is no longer possible for policymakers to neglect the ‘social’ aspect” of social determinants of health.

The article citation is Laura C. Hoffman, Putting the “Social” into Social Determinants of Health: Why Policymaking for Improving Health Must Tackle Social Isolation and Loneliness, 78 Okla. L. Rev. 97 (2025), https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/olr/vol78/iss1/4.