Health Policy News - February 4, 2019
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02/04/2019
New report: The First 1,000 Days: A Report from Voices for Ohio’s Children’s Fall 2018 Regional Forums.
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Health Policy News - January 7, 2019
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01/07/2019
The nation’s public housing authorities are seeking closer links to health insurers and medical care providers to address social determinants of health.
Health Policy News - December 3, 2018
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12/03/2018
Older adults with diabetes participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, demonstrated improvements in adhering to their treatment regimens, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Health Policy News - November 5, 2018
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11/05/2018
Social Determinants of Health
A new tool produced by the U.S. Census Bureau confirms what people have long suspected: that where you grow up makes a difference in your ability to climb the economic ladder
Health Policy News - October 2, 2018
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10/02/2018
Nearly 90 percent of U.S. physicians say at least some of their patients have a social condition that poses a serious impediment to their health, whether it be unemployment, lack of education or drug addiction, a new nationwide survey of doctors shows.
Health Policy News - September 10, 2018
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09/10/2018
The movement to better address the social and environmental factors that affect health has insurance companies and other payers looking beyond the hospital or clinic and stepping into the community to give patients help where it's needed.
Health Policy News - August 6, 2018
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08/06/2018
A growing body of research has found a strong link between youth incarceration and poor health outcomes.
Health Policy News - July 9, 2018
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07/09/2018
Organizations that account for the social determinants of health and connect patients to services that meet their social needs could reduce spending by approximately 11 percent within a year, according to a recent study.
Health Policy News - June 5, 2018
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06/05/2018
Health systems and community stakeholders around the country are choosing to form new collaborations to address the social factors that have created great health disparities between low-income and more-affluent neighborhoods.
Health Policy News - May 8, 2018
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05/08/2018
Researchers from Wake Forest published a study in The Foundation Review last month on how health conversion foundations can better address the social determinants of health. Interact for Health, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland and the Saint Luke’s Foundation were interviewed for the study, titled “Becoming Strategic: Finding Leverage Over the Social and Economic Determinants of Health.”
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