AHIMA October 2, 2023
Data-driven technologies such as health information technology could help advance the work of health equity, with a goal toward achieving better health outcomes and reducing costs. Doing so in practice, however, has been a challenge, given that social determinants of health (SDOH) issues affect many healthcare services.
SDOH refers to 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.” The Healthy People 2030 Framework, a federal initiative that addresses health and wellbeing from a societal perspective, outlines five SDOH domains that influence health outcomes: economic stability; education access and quality; healthcare access and quality; neighborhood and environment; and social and community context.
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