National Academy of Medicine September 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — Whether a patient has a safe place to live or healthy food to eat has an important influence on their health, but such nonmedical social needs have not traditionally been addressed in routine health care visits. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health, contains five overarching goals and associated recommendations that health care systems, government agencies, and others should implement to better integrate patients’ social needs into health care delivery.
Two trends are driving a need to integrate social care with health care, the report says. Firstly, the health care system is moving toward paying care providers...
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