HealthLeaders Media June 22, 2020
Christopher Cheney and Alexandra Pecci and Steven Porter

To tackle social determinants of health effectively, health systems must set clear priorities and know their role.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– As leaders adapt, their priorities should follow the evolving needs that community members are expressing.

– For healthcare organizations, establishing partnerships to address social determinants of health (SDOH) often capitalizes on work that is already being done in the community.

– Health system investments in SDOH projects can be broken into two groups: micro interventions that assist individual patients and macro interventions that operate on a larger, systemic level.

This article appears in the July/August 2020 edition of HealthLeaders magazine.

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