Background It is broadly accepted that poverty is associated with poor health, and the health
impact of poverty has been explored in numerous high-income country settings. There is a …

Even with great advances in behavioral health policy in the last decade, the problems of
mental illness and addiction persist in the United States—so more needs to be done. In this …

Background: Machine learning (ML) approaches have been broadly applied to the
prediction of length of stay and mortality in hospitalized patients. ML may also reduce …

The movement toward value-based care provides a significant opportunity to address social
determinants of health (SDoH) while improving value and quality of care. Valuebased care …

Edward Hannan and colleagues found that a lack of standardization of input variables to the
Area Deprivation Index (ADI) available from the Neighborhood Atlas overweights the index …

PURPOSE Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are leaders in screening for and
addressing patient's health-related social needs but variation exists in screening practices …

Clinic-based food referral programs (FRPs) may help alleviate food insecurity and improve
access to nutritious foods by systematically identifying and referring food-insecure primary …

Introduction Social risk factors such as food insecurity and lack of transportation can
negatively affect health outcomes, yet implementation of screening and referral for social risk …

Importance Health care researchers, professionals, payers, and policymakers are
increasingly relying on publicly available composite indices of area-level socioeconomic …

At our first community health center... chil-dren were dying from the combination of infectious
diarrhea and malnutrition... We decided to start writing prescriptions for food... That led to this …