When health service providers and community organizations recognize and address social determinants of health, they empower ...

A new textbook edited by UB faculty member Leonard Egede explores health care inequalities, their origins and how to address ...

Ask Questions that Address Social Determinants of Health Undoubtedly, you don’t have endless time during patient visits. You ...

Racism, economic policies, climate change, where we live and work are all social determinants of health. This panel examines how these factors impact health equity—or inequity—for Black Americans.

Black women face greater risk of death and trauma due to childbirth. This reporter explored why. In a yearlong investigation, Capital B national health reporter Margo Snipe examined how ...

Traditional ways of describing the drivers of health as social determinants may do the same. “If we are seeking to address drivers of health, we must use language that resonates, and social ...

The main steps to addressing social determinants of health are collecting data from your patients and designing a referral process. The Physicians Foundation has launched resources and guides for ...

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play ...

He added that even if you have one social determinant of health, on average your costs are 10% higher than for someone who has none. UnitedHealthcare said it is working to address those challenges.

UnitedHealth Group clinicians will make more than 2.5 million visits to patients' homes this year as health insurers address social determinants of health.

If we're going to achieve good health outcomes, we need to address the social determinants of health. We need to ask the experts in our community how to do that. Desai: There's so much there that ...

The Physicians Foundation has launched resources and guides for physician practices to address social determinants of health. Social determinants of health, which The Physicians Foundation calls ...