After screening for health-related social needs, health systems and hospitals can connect patients with community-based resources. CMOs should be concerned that the health-related social needs of ...

Discussions of social determinants of health might focus on the obvious ones—like income or education—while overlooking some other social determinants that impact health in complex ways. In recent ...

The more unmet social determinants of health, the greater risk of lower cognitive performance in that person, a study finds. The report was published on Jan. 10 in BMC Geriatrics. Investigators ...

What if improving education, income, and housing could reduce the disparities in healthcare outcomes by half? Identifying needs is proving more difficult than we anticipated. The social determinants ...

CHF combined with high SDOH burdens significantly increases all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risks. The study analyzed data from 38,947 participants, focusing on CHF and SDOH impacts on ...

CHICAGO — Health equity is about fair and just care for everyone, and there’s no quality in healthcare without equity, Jillian Rose-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW, vice president and chief equity officer at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Several factors contributed to inequities of outcomes among people with hematologic malignancies in the United ...

Finely tuned models showed success in consistently extracting information like housing or employment status that often isn’t systematically organized in clinical notes. But using large language models ...

Older adults with unfavorable social determinants of health (SDoH) were significantly associated with an increased risk of frailty, with a more visible effect on those aged 65-75. That is according to ...

A global report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the underlying causes of ill health often stem from factors beyond the health sector, such as lack of quality housing, ...

To characterize co-occurring social determinants of health for clients experiencing perinatal anxiety and depression (perinatal mood and anxiety disorders) or serious mental illness (SMI) in a diverse ...

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), first-authored by Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology Philip Akinyelure, M.D., shows that some of ...