HealthLeaders Media June 22, 2020
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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