Over the past century, the maternal care model has grown to be somewhat standardized from patient to patient. A birthing person becomes pregnant and has periodic visits with her OBGYN, and once the baby is born, the healthcare experience...
Hypertension during pregnancy is a growing problem in the United States, with Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) pregnant people being the most at-risk for hypertension, according to...
Despite happening nearly a hundred years ago, the nation is still seeing the impacts of redlining and other forms of systemic racism, with recent data showing that redlining has resulted in present-day...
As the medical industry continues to understand how social determinants of health impact overall wellness, the topics of environment and climate change have come into view.
SDOH specifically refer to the environments in which individuals...
Income is a leading social determinant of health impacting wellness, but a living wage is far out-of-reach in nearly every county in the United States, according to the 2022 County Health...
Cancer survivors struggling with medical financial hardship face a higher mortality risk than cancer survivors who do not face the same financial strain, according to a national study published in the...
Two years after the medical industry joined the rest of the nation in a racial reckoning, patients are still reporting a healthcare experience characterized by racial discrimination, according to data...
Race and income are proving key social determinants of health affecting outcomes for kids with autism, who already have higher-risk health challenges, according to a new report from The Autism...
Smoking was the leading social determinant of health affecting mortality and life expectancy, although income was another strong SDOH predictor, according to researchers from the Center for Population...
Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system, has announced the launch of its Center for Maternal Health to address the rising maternal mortality rate and troubling Black maternal health...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced new efforts to expand access to maternal health services, targeting care inequities that drive maternal health disparities for Black and Latino families.
The...
The Nebraska-based Bluestem Health knew whole-person care that accounts for behavioral health and SDOH would be the key to complex chronic disease management, but in the throes of a nationwide workforce shortage, the federally qualified...
Although the majority of physicians recognize the role social determinants of health (SDOH) play in patient outcomes, many physicians do not have the time or resources needed to navigate patient SDOH,...
Children of families that experienced greater hardships related to the COVID-19 pandemic had a poorer quality of life, according to a new National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study.
During the...
The role of the community health worker is becoming more prominent, but that’s leaving some healthcare organizations and public health agencies with a big question. How do they design community health worker training...
The types of social determinants of health that medical providers may identify in their patients vary, meaning it will take numerous social determinants of health interventions to support patient wellness.
But with these hospital- or...
About one in ten kids experience food insecurity, a serious social determinant of health, between 2019 and 2020, with new CDC data revealing steep racial, geographic, and disease state health...
The United States still has the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world, a factor largely driven by steep Black maternal health disparities, according to the most recent figures out of...
It’s hard to improve what isn’t measured, the adage goes. At NCQA, newly proposed HEDIS measures look to address that problem in the realm of social determinants of health screenings.
HEDIS measures, or Healthcare...
After nearly a year of health equity work, Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said the department will continue to make justice in the medical space a top...
