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The role of pediatric networks in managing social health needs
Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care
Pediatric-specific networks have emerged over the past decade as Medicaid payment models have shifted away from fee-for-service, which rewards volume of service delivery, towards more value-based payments that incentivize improved health outcomes.
Implementing social determinant of health screening in a family medicine clinic: A pilot study
Am J Med Qual
While unmet social needs can perpetuate barriers to health equity, health care staff may feel unprepared to address these needs.
Collecting standardized data on social determinants of health to address structural racism, drive health equity and respond to COVID-19
National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc., Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Identifying and documenting the socioeconomic and structural drivers of poor outcomes, health disparities, and higher costs is recognized as a necessary step for providers caring for complex patients and accountable for population health goals.
A new roadmap for social medicine curriculum design based on mixed methods student and faculty evaluations of the preclinical curriculum
BMC Med Educ
Background: To support the development of social medicine curricula that empower medical school graduates to redress health inequities, we conducted a mixed methods student and faculty evaluation of an expanded and innovative preclinical social medicine curriculum.
Strategies and challenges: Qualitative lessons learned from Georgia produce prescription programs
Health Promot Pract
Produce prescription programs (PPPs) have grown in numbers in the past decade, empowering health care providers to promote health by issuing subsidies for produce to vulnerable patients.
Legal counsel: A health care partner for immigrant communities
Health Aff
With changes to the public charge rule sparking fear, one Texas clinic has focused on correcting misinformation and empowering staff.
The impact of a pediatric Medical-Legal Partnership on pediatric providers
Acad Pediatr
Objective: Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLP) integrate medical and legal care to address prevalent health-harming legal needs (HHLN) among socioeconomically marginalized populations.
Improve patient-centered care, decrease provider burnout, maximize Z codes, minimize hierarchical condition category codes
Popul Health Manag
“The shortest distance between two people is a story.” Patti Digh
Care transitions and social needs: a Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network scoping review and consensus statement
Acad Emerg Med
Objectives: Individual-level social needs have been shown to substantially impact emergency department (ED) care transitions of older adults.