SOCIAL DETERMINANTS AND SOCIAL NEEDS: Integrating Social Care into Health care to Improve the Nations Health

摘要

Over the last thirty years, consistent and compelling evidence has documented strong associations between socio‐economic risk factors and health outcomes. This has led to a growing number of payment and practice innovations across the health care sector related to identifying and addressing patient social risks alongside more traditional biomedical care. In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) convened a one‐year national expert committee charged with examining the potential for integrating social care and health care services to achieve better health outcomes and to help overcome major challenges facing the U.S. health care system.