Integrating social care into the delivery of health care moving upstream to improve the nation's health

The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend -- at least in part -- on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bo...

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Corporate Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.) Committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation's Health
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC National Academies Press [2019], 2019
Series:Consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
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Summary:The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend -- at least in part -- on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities
Physical Description:1 PDF file (xv, 177 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780309493437
0309493439
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