MedCity News September 30, 2022
We know that healthcare is big business, but even more than that, it is the final common pathway to all social determinants. I firmly believe that we can still establish an exemplary model of population health — a system that promotes inclusion of all factors associated with a patient’s health in order to provide as much comprehensive care as possible.
The World Health Organization now considers social determinants of health to comprise the better part of healthcare. This is long overdue, but as pioneers of the population health movement, my colleagues and I consider this an understatement.
We estimate that 80 percent of individual health is due to non-medical factors, including crime, poverty, education and opioid abuse. The silver lining...
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