The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investing $3.7 billion to help with utility bills, particularly home energy costs, via the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program...
A new partnership between Instacart and Wellness West tailored for food insecurity will help forge deeper inroads into the healthcare space for the grocery store technology company.
In particular, the...
Homelessness remains a key social determinant of health, with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, revealing that individuals who are homeless are 16 times more likely to...
Boston Medical Center will be the first in the nation to offer a Clean Power Prescription, a new pilot program designed to address utilities as a social determinant of health while also considering...
Having good hospital readmission rates is nearly impossible without a curated patient engagement strategy.
A key metric in most value-based care models, hospital readmission rates measure the...
When it comes to care coordination and social determinants of health interventions, patient engagement and activation are key, according to new data in JAMA Network Open.
The study, published by...
While most health system social determinants of health initiatives are fundamentally about uncovering and fulfilling social needs, those efforts would not be complete without the health IT necessary to support them.
Indeed, programs that...
In what could feel like a culmination of decades of hard work, Hackensack Meridian University Medical Center’s recent Joint Commission certification for Health Care Equity is, in fact, another stop along its journey to health...
Shoppers can now cross “better health outcomes” off their grocery lists, as more data continues to show the efficacy of produce prescription programs.
In a new study, researchers from...
Rural healthcare organizations excel at addressing social determinants of health despite the barriers blocking patient care access, a new University of Missouri study found.
Overall, hospitals and...
Kids from traditionally underserved communities tend to have lower pediatric primary and preventive care access rates than their peers from more affluent places, a new JAMA Network Open study showed....
Even with home-based care interventions, social determinants of health and structural barriers get in the way of good maternal health outcomes, a new Health Affairs study has found.
The report,...
A whopping 5.6 million birthing people are finding themselves without access to maternity care as the prevalence of maternity deserts continues to grow, according to reports from March of Dimes.
These...
The federal government needs a new body that can improve racial, ethnic, and tribal health equity, according to a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
The...
Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, wants every primary care provider asking all of their patients about HIV screening as a standard of preventive care. After all, that’s the best way to keep patients from slipping through the cracks and going...
Amid soaring food prices in 2022, SNAP benefits fall short of covering moderately priced meals in 78 percent of United States counties, a new Urban Institute survey revealed.
SNAP, the US's...
Any good population health strategy needs good patient engagement, and as a part of that, good patient engagement technologies.
Defined by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, population health is an “interdisciplinary,...
Produce prescription programs would be a best buy healthcare intervention, with a new study from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy showing such programs could cut...
Food is medicine is an emerging philosophy in healthcare that acknowledges the link between diet, food security, and disease.
Defined by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, food is medicine “is a reaffirmation that...
Getting eligible families enrolled in food assistance programs like SNAP could be key to closing the racial disparities in food insecurity, according to a new study out in JAMA Network Open.
According...
