Modern Healthcare November 9, 2016
The search for the best ways to tackle the social determinants of health is turning up more questions than answers. How should interventions for homelessness or food insecurity be managed and funded? Can healthcare organizations do it successfully and sustainably?
Two studies published Wednesday in the November issue of Health Affairs drove those questions home. One examined the different ways accountable care organizations tried to improve population health. Another looked at an innovative way of financing interventions using a model called pay-for-success.
Both studies determined that these models had potential but were nonetheless beset with challenges.
“It’s so new right now,” said Paula Lantz, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who led the...
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