Your zip code might matter more than your genetic code when it comes to your health. That’s not a slogan. It’s what decades of public health research tell us.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions where you’re born, live, work, and age. They include things like whether you have stable housing, access to healthy food, a job that pays enough to cover your bills, and a doctor you can actually get to.

The Five Pillars That Shape Your Health

At Five Health, we organize our work around five key pillars: Economic Stability, Community Engagement, Health Access and Quality, Neighborhood and Built Environment, and Education Access and Quality.

These aren’t abstract concepts. Economic stability means the difference between affording medication or skipping doses. Community engagement means having a network of people who look out for you. Health access means a clinic that’s open when you need it, not just during hours you can’t make.

What This Looks Like in Miami

In some Miami neighborhoods, life expectancy can differ by more than a decade depending on which side of a highway you live on. That gap isn’t random. It tracks directly with income levels, access to grocery stores, and availability of primary care.

Five Health exists to close those gaps. Our programs target each of the five pillars because fixing just one doesn’t move the needle far enough.

What You Can Do Right Now

Start by understanding your own situation. Our Community Connect app walks you through a quick assessment of how social determinants affect your daily life. It then connects you directly to local resources that can help.

You don’t need to navigate the system alone. That’s what we’re here for.