The importance of social determinants of health and the intersections of Medical and Dental Education

The expanding "Global village" in which we live often leads modern healthcare to plunge itself into a diversity of cultural backgrounds and social-economics contexts that often pose a challenge not only for patients' management but, more importantly, generates the need to provide medical and dental students with the necessary competences to overcome the challenges set forwards for these particular environments, which can also be found in socially deprived contexts of the so called "rich countries".