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...
A new initiative from Stanford Medicine aims to reduce health disparities among LGBTQ people by collecting more information about gender identity and sexual orientation during patient...
Food is medicine might be emerging as more than healthcare’s latest social determinants of health buzzword.
A new study out of Mass General Brigham showed that providing plant-based food...
Uber Health, the rideshare company's healthcare arm, has broadened its service capabilities by launching grocery and over-the-counter pharmacy product delivery services to break down patient...
If your food security program doesn’t offer subsidies, you’re doing it wrong, one new study in Marketing Science found.
When faced with the choice to buy healthier foods or cheaper foods,...
Evara Health is among the recipients of a $65 million HHS funding initiative, supporting underserved communities in creating innovative approaches to reduce Black maternal health...
The American Medical Association (AMA), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and Race Forward have united in a national coalition advocating for multi-sector collaborations to prioritize...
In terms of maternal and infant outcomes, neighborhood is everything, with a new JAMA Network Open research note outlining poor perceived neighborhood safety can result in low birth weight, likelihood...
While more primary care practices are screening patients for social risk, the cost of social determinants of health (SDOH) interventions targeting housing security, non-emergency medical...
Seven community-based health centers across Hawaii have received $15 million from the Stupski Foundation to help improve health equity.
This substantial $15 million grant is part of a...
In order to address the social factors impacting patient well-being, healthcare organizations foremost need validated social determinants of health screening tools to uncover those social needs.
SDOH screening can happen using a few...
Over 20 percent of US adults, mainly low-income individuals, experience transportation barriers that hinder care access, leading to at least one missed medical appointment in the past year, revealed an...
It is nearly impossible for healthcare to address its equity problem without acknowledging the role of the weathering hypothesis, a concept stating that experiences with racism and discrimination can have adverse health consequences.
With...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in partnership with the Indian Health Service (IHS), has slated $2.5 million to support the development of produce prescription, a growing approach to...
The evidence keeps piling up, cementing weathering as a key social determinant of health (SDOH). New data from the American Heart Association highlighted the link between workplace discrimination and...
As the United States nears the end of its COVID-19 emergency declarations, Michigan's Health Department has repurposed old COVID-19 testing sites for a pilot program, leveraging community health...
The different social determinants of health have different impacts on healthcare quality, utilization, and outcomes, with new Humana data showing that some SDOH are more closely related to poor care...
The Physicians Foundation has launched the Let’s Take Five campaign, which aims to give doctors resources to start conversations about the social determinants of health and implement SDOH...
Healthcare needs to get on the same page about implicit bias. Rather than thinking of unconscious bias as a scarlet letter, understanding that bias creeps into everyone from all kinds of sources—and that there is nothing we can do to...
As the US healthcare system comes to understand the numerous non-clinical factors that influence health and well-being, it can begin to acknowledge exposure to crime and violence as a social determinant of health.
Violence can be varied,...
