Background Policymakers in many countries promote collaboration between health care
organizations and other sectors as a route to improving population health. Local …

Health care organizations are increasingly implementing programs to address patients'
social conditions. To support these efforts, new technology platforms have emerged to …

Importance Social needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and experience
with interpersonal violence, are linked to health outcomes. Identifying patients with unmet …

Social determinants of health (SDoH) is a relatively new term in health care. As defined by
the World Health Organization (WHO), SDoH are “the conditions in which people are born …

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 …

There is growing interest in the role of healthcare systems in addressing patients' social
needs. This is no surprise; evidence on the impact of social factors on population health is …

Importance In recent years, hospitals and health systems have reported increasing rates of
screening for patients' individual and community social needs, but few studies have …

Objective To quantify the association between patient self-management capability measured
using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) and healthcare utilisation across a whole health …

The main objective of this study was to examine how homelessness and housing instability
is captured across data sources in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Data from …

We live in a world of incredible linguistic diversity; nearly 7000 languages are spoken
globally and at least 350 are spoken in the United States. Language-concordant care …