Health IT Analytics December, 2017
What are the social determinants of population health, and how can healthcare providers reduce the socioeconomic impacts of community disparities?
Financially and clinically successful population health management programs must take much more into account than what happens to a patient while she is sitting on the exam table.
As the healthcare system’s responsibility expands beyond the clinic walls and into the community, the need to understand and address the social determinants of health has become a top priority.
Helping patients to overcome socioeconomic barriers to better health by spending more on community improvements can reduce downstream medical costs, found the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in a recent study.
States with a higher ratio of social-to-healthcare spending from 2000 to 2009...
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