Chief Healthcare Executive November 3, 2024
To address unmet social needs, the silos that have traditionally existed between healthcare and social care must be dismantled.
Health outcomes are heavily influenced by social determinants of health — the conditions in which people live, learn, work and age — such as housing, income, and employment, which are shaped by upstream structural determinants of health.
Structural determinants of health include laws, policies, institutions, and practices that contribute to unjust social, political, and economic conditions such as systemic racism, sexism, and ableism which produce health inequities. These social determinants exist primarily outside of the healthcare system yet contribute to most of the adverse health outcomes across communities.
The national focus on the need to address health related social needs, as...
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