Leveraging the social determinants of health: what works?

LA Taylor, AX Tan, CE Coyle, C Ndumele, E Rogan… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We summarized the recently published, peer-reviewed literature that examined the impact of
investments in social services or investments in integrated models of health care and social …

Community‐Based Supports and Services for Older Adults: A Primer for Clinicians

EL Siegler, SD Lama, MG Knight… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although 20% of adults 60 years and older receive community‐based supports and services
(CBSS), clinicians may have little more than a vague awareness of what is available and …

Meal delivery programs reduce the use of costly health care in dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries

SA Berkowitz, J Terranova, C Hill, T Ajayi, T Linsky… - Health …, 2018 - healthaffairs.org
Delivering food to nutritionally vulnerable patients is important for addressing these patients'
social determinants of health. However, it is not known whether food delivery programs can …

Association between receipt of a medically tailored meal program and health care use

SA Berkowitz, J Terranova, L Randall… - JAMA internal …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Whether interventions to improve food access can reduce health care use is
unknown. Objective To determine whether participation in a medically tailored meal …

Impact of social needs navigation on utilization among high utilizers in a large integrated health system: a quasi-experimental study

A Schickedanz, A Sharp, YR Hu, NR Shah… - Journal of general …, 2019 - Springer
Background Programs addressing social determinants of health for high-utilizing patients
are gaining interest among health systems as an avenue to promote health and decrease …

Unmet social needs among low‐income adults in the United States: Associations with health care access and quality

MB Cole, KH Nguyen - Health services research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To describe social needs among low‐income adults and estimate the relationship
between level of unmet social needs and key indicators of health care access and quality …

More than a meal? A randomized control trial comparing the effects of home-delivered meals programs on participants' feelings of loneliness

KS Thomas, U Akobundu, D Dosa - Journals of Gerontology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective: Nutrition service providers are seeking alternative delivery models to control costs
and meet the growing need for home-delivered meals. The objective of this study was to …

Does participation in home-delivered meals programs improve outcomes for older adults? Results of a systematic review

AD Campbell, A Godfryd, DR Buys… - Journal of nutrition in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Participation in home-delivered meals programs may contribute to the health and
independence of older adults living in the community, especially those who are food …

Utilisation of community care services and self-rated health among elderly population in China: a survey-based analysis with propensity score matching method

L Yang, L Wang, X Di, X Dai - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Elderly care and elderly health are the enormous challenges in such an aging
society as China. Community care services have been developing rapidly in recent years in …

Thirty-year trends in nursing home composition and quality since the passage of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act

SA Fashaw, KS Thomas, E McCreedy, V Mor - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective In 1987, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act (OBRA) called for a dramatic
overhaul of the nursing home (NH) quality assurance system. This study examines trends in …