Commonwealth Fund March 22, 2018
A practical guide to support health plan and provider investments in social services
The impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) as drivers of medical utilization, cost, and health outcomes is both widely researched and acknowledged. This growing body of evidence attributes as much as 40 percent of health outcomes to SDOH such as housing, education, poverty, and nutrition and that as much as a third of the deaths in the United States can be accounted for by social factors. The influence of SDOH is particularly pronounced in vulnerable high-need, high-cost (HNHC) populations with single to multiple functional limitations.
Despite the widespread acknowledgement of the importance of addressing SDOH to improve outcomes and lower medical costs, observed investments tend to...
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