05.19.2022 | Health Leads
There’s a long history to recognizing that social factors shape people’s health. But the social determinants of health are getting more attention than ever. Will that attention turn into action and lasting change? ...
In this randomized clinical trial, the provision of in-person resource navigation services significantly decreased families’ reports of social needs and significantly improved children’s overall health status compared with an active control condition.
BOSTON, Mass. – As hospitals and health systems across the U.S. continue to increase their commitment to addressing patients’ unmet social needs, Health Leads today launched the first in a series of Toolkits to arm health system leaders and front-line clinicians with guidance to integrate social needs interventions into medical care at scale.
A study by Massachusetts General Hospital compares the institution’s Health Leads client population to the general patient population finding associations between the distribution of essential needs and several clinical conditions like depression, diabetes and hypertension.
