Alfaro Hudak and colleagues 1 describe the association between vision loss in adolescents and adults and social determinants of health (SDOH) in a cross-sectional analysis of 3 nationally representative data sets.Although there was variability in how vision loss was categorized, including only 1 data set that directly assessed visual acuity, and variability in how SDOH was measured, the findings were consistent: adverse social risk factors were associated with worse vision. This is an important finding, but also expected. It is hard to identify a health outcome that is not influenced by social risk factors. The real question is how these results can be used to improve population health. We suspect that many readers of the article by Alfaro Hudak and colleagues, 1 while aware of the challenges related to SDOH, engage with their patients to help improve access to timely and high-quality ophthalmologic care. This is commendable but will not be successful in addressing the fundamental problems created by disparate social factors.Alfaro Hudak and colleagues reference the World Health Organization definition of SDOH. A more complete definition is that SDOH "are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life." 2 Many clinics and other health centers have adopted screening for social needs (eg, food insecurity, housing insecurity, energy insecurity, and transportation problems). The degree to which social needs screening is effective depends on how well the questions are asked and the degree to which follow-up services are provided. Regardless, it is important to not conflate social needs screening with evaluating SDOH. Individuals might not identify a particular social need in a given visit but still live in a community with little green space, community-level underemployment, or with social exclusion. Direct evidence supports the impact of these kinds of environmental exposures and vision. For example, regular outdoor exercise, which relies on access to safe spaces, decreases the risk of myopia in school-aged children. 3 Social needs screening also only provides insight into what is going on at a moment in time, while SDOH affects individuals, families, and communities over a lifetime and across many domains. Addressing social needs for individuals in a visit can be valuable, and it is something that can be embedded into clinical practice. Such work also helps address gaps where social determinants of health in the local community are not being meaningfully addressed. They are best addressed by health care systems in partnership with other community-based organizations and with community members.Many of the SDOH factors considered by Alfaro Hudak and colleagues are personal-level factors (eg, income, employment, food security, education, marital status, health care access, and high-speed Internet) that are likely to be associated