HealthLeaders Media February 24, 2023
The 77-page toolkit includes four case studies and frequently-asked questions about how to identify, collect, analyze, and use social determinants of health to address healthcare inequities and access issues.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Social determinants of health are defined as “the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.”
– The ONC has developed a 77-page toolkit to help healthcare organizations identify, collect, analyze, and use SDOH to address health inequities.
– The toolkit is part of an ONC strategy that includes past and future SDOH Information Exchange Learning Sessions.
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