Physicians and nurses have long known what has become increasingly obvious to hospitals, health systems and health plans — social determinants of health (SDoH) have an outsized impact on health ...

Hospitals always want to do better. They keep tabs on the materials they use, the procedures they perform, and the patient outcomes after care. Factors like these help them assess risk when ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts discussing the Culture of Health. In 2014 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced its Culture of Health initiative, ...

Up to 80% of health outcomes are influenced by factors beyond clinical care such as economic wellbeing, housing, food insecurity, and other community and social factors.1 These social drivers can ...

Objectives To examine the association between social determinants of health (SDH) and outcomes in systemic lupus ...

The Indiana Network for Population Health (INPH) has been launched by the Regenstrief Institute and collaborators, including the State of Indiana, Indiana University and the Indiana Health Information ...

The need to simultaneously reduce healthcare costs and deliver optimal care are driving the expansion of population health management initiatives among hospitals today. Add to that mix the rising ...

This study explored the statistical association of key social determinants of health with specific health outcomes to validate impact and then created weighted categorical matrices. Objectives: This ...

In these times of so many compounded threats to public health it is easy to lose sight of small yet potentially significant victories. This past week in a development that received some media ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Michael Thompson: One of the terms that I think we’re hearing a lot more of—not because it’s a new term, but I think people are trying to figure out how do we get at it, particularly through employers ...