University of California, San Francisco
Background: Community health worker (CHW) programs take many forms and have been shown to be effective in improving health in several contexts. The extent to which they reduce unnecessary care is not firmly established.
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Where is the break-even point for community health workers? Using national data and local programmatic costs to find the break-even point for a metropolitan community health worker program.
T. Gurley-Calvez, J.A.R. Williams
Med Care
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Effects of in-person assistance vs personalized written resources about social services on household social risks and child and caregiver health: A randomized clinical trial
L.M. Gottlieb, N.E. Adler, H. Wing, D. Velazquez, V. Keeton, A. Romero, M. Hernandez, A. Munoz Vera, E. Urrutia Caceres, C. Arevalo, P. Herrera, M. Bernal Suarez, D. Hessler
JAMA Network Open
Importance: Social and economic contexts shape children's short- and long-term health. Efforts to address contextual risk factors are increasingly incorporated into pediatric health care.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of 2 social risk-related interventions.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchRandomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
"From taboo to routine": A qualitative evaluation of a hospital-based advocacy intervention for domestic violence and abuse
S. Dheensa, G. Halliwell, J. Daw, S.K. Jones, G. Feder
BMC Health Serv Res
Health services are often the first point of professional contact for people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse. We report on the evaluation of a multi-site, hospital-based advocacy intervention for survivors of domestic violence and abuse.
2020
Peer Reviewed ResearchOther Study Design
Foreword to conference proceedings, inventing social emergency medicine
H.J. Alter
Ann Emerg Med
Before you are the proceedings of an invitational consensus conference called Inventing Social Emergency Medicine, including subsequent reflections and a supplemental riff off of the experience of being there.
2019
Peer Reviewed ResearchIntroduction
H.K. Kanzaria, J.R. Hoffman
Ann Emerg Med
In October 2016, when Harrison Alter convened the first meeting of a group that would later become the Social Emergency Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), participants were invited to make a comment while introducing themselves to the group.
2019
Peer Reviewed ResearchPrinciples of social emergency medicine
J. Fahimi, L. Goldfrank
Ann Emerg Med
Throughout most of its history, emergency medicine was practiced on distinct islands, without the standardization, support, or oversight that we expect today.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsCommentary: What next? From the principles to the practice of social emergency medicine
N.E. Wang
Ann Emerg Med
This commentary expands the Fahimi and Goldfrank overview of the principles of social emergency medicine to speak to its institutionalization. This first requires understanding the mission of social emergency medicine.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsCommentary: Seeking consensus goals and broad support for social emergency medicine
S. Lippert
Ann Emerg Med
Fahimi and Goldfrank eloquently delineate the ways in which social emergency medicine is integral to the foundation and practice of emergency medicine.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsReflections: A social emergency medicine call to arms: Promoting the adoption of social emergency medicine practices
T. Schneberk, R.J. Cooper
Ann Emerg Med
The mission of this movement is to recruit people from within the emergency medicine community to adopt and develop social emergency medicine practices.
2019
Commentaries & BlogsAchieving the quadruple aim: Treating patients as people by screening for and addressing the social determinants of health
D. Hsieh
Ann Emerg Med
Health care in the United States has reached a breaking point, with increasing costs, ongoing poor outcomes, and increasing provider burnout.
2019
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