We used narrative data synthesis to appraise the extent to which the assessments gathered data on the domains of the World Health Organization social determinants of health framework. [...] The Commission’s framework for action on the social WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health determinants of health conceptually differentiates policy 2007 report, Challenging inequity through health systems.17 interventions in terms of their target population: individuals Reforming primary care to engage with public health func- a Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, [...] Primary care and social determinants of noncommunicable diseases Table 1. Characteristics of studies included the systematic review of approaches to assessing and addressing social determinants of health in primary care Study City or region, country Study type Primary care organization Population served Institute of Medicine, Checkerboard area of Case study System of satellite primary 14 000 patie [...] Primary care and social determinants of noncommunicable diseases sources required to build and maintain and the WHO Commission’s report65 mitigating unmet social needs and routine population-level assessment to provide a way of thinking through health disparities, future research should systems on the social determinants of the various levels where primary care endeavour to use longer follow-up pe [...] In particular, the absence of local social determinants of health and social determinants of health to design health outcomes data reported in the in- health disparities.