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Getting Started On Social Determinants of Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Bradley Hunter, research director of population health, KLAS Research. Over the last couple of years, social determinants of health (SDoH) have become increasingly important. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems

Healthcare It News

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care. Let's start with why they're important. That's quite significant.

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Designing with health literacy in mind can help with SDOH, study shows

Healthcare It News

There is a commonly held belief that social determinants of health like income and education level may negatively impact the use of digital health programs, and that this could widen gaps in health equity. Please describe the remote diabetes monitoring program/social determinants of health study you conducted.

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Stephanie Tabashneck: An “Interpreter” Between Two Fields

Bill of Health

Both my parents were very invested in social justice, which I respected, and I knew it was important to me that I had a job that contributed to making the world a kinder, more just place. Now, over fifteen years later, Dr. Kinscherff and I co-teach that same law and mental health class at William James College.

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History Rhymes with the Psychedelic Boom

Bill of Health

After decades of being associated with insanity, violence, and social disorder, psychedelics are now being embraced as potential wonder drugs. On closer inspection, these supposed magical properties share one defining element: the power to render social context irrelevant by working directly on the individual psyche.

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HIMSS22 EUROPE: ‘To change citizens’ health behaviour we need technology that creates delight’

Healthcare It News

“Could nations build a healthcare environment where health comes by default?” ” He gave an example of the citizen-centric date platform, We Are , which is about to be launched in Flanders in Belgium, to give patients control over their health data. ’ at the HIMS22 European Conference on 15 June.

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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

We sat down with Dr. Smith to discuss his experience caring for patients with serious illness and developing programs to provide health care at home, among other topics. Can you share why you’re involved in this area of health care? it starts with my family. It was an obvious place to make a difference.