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Social Determinant of Health Evaluation (ORISE) Fellowship, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Cofounder

CDC’s Division of Population Health provides scientific leadership and expertise to prevent costly chronic diseases and improve health across the life span.

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Food, Shelter, Health Insurance – #SDOH

Health Blawg

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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Food, Shelter, Health Insurance – #SDOH

Health Blawg

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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GIS mapping can be used to track social determinants of health, child well-being

Public Health Newswire

“Child care and public health have similar goals, like child development, nutrition and preventive measures like vaccinations. We need to work together toward these goals.”

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The confluence of value-based care and population health

Health Blawg

I heard a nice definition of population health recently: “Connecting people with resources for healthy living.”. That really spoke to me, because it represents a step back from a tightly-quantified measure to a broader approach to social determinants of health (SDOH).

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HealthBI’s Scott McFarland says Step Away From the Fax Machine — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

The practices get information to help address social determinants of health via the platform as well. Four years in, the company is seeing positive results in terms of gaps in care closed, across the domains of both behavioral health and physical medicine. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Behavioral health, said Cindy, doesn’t necessarily have to be integrated into the delivery system, but assessments should be integrated (e.g., PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.