New Short Documentary Inspires Us to Rethink ‘What Counts’ as Healthcare
06.10.2018 | Health Leads
Emmy-winning filmmaker Nicole Newnham traces the origins of community health to the passionate leaders of today driving us toward a new kind of care.
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Study Finds Nonmedical Social Services May Be the Answer to Improve American Health
02.21.2018 | Health Leads
In the case study, researchers analyzed Health Leads and its effect on a community over a 20-year period through the five stages of diffusion: testing and learning, model standardization, model replication, a shift from doing to enabling and catalyzing broad adoption.
Integrating Social Needs Into Health Care: A Twenty-Year Case Study Of Adaptation And Diffusion
02.01.2018 | Health Leads
Health Leads founder Rebecca Onie sheds light on our efforts to catalyze integration of essential needs interventions in healthcare in this 20-year case study of Health Leads' strategy.
Overcoming the Greatest Barriers to Patient Care
01.25.2018 | Health Leads
Health care leaders and front-line clinicians have long understood the connection between essential needs—such as food, housing, and transportation—and the health of their patients. Leading studies indicate social and environmental factors account for nearly 70 percent of all health outcomes.
Overcoming the Greatest Barriers to Patient Care
01.25.2018 | Health Leads
Access to information is a critical first step, but a resource directory alone is not enough to solve critical social needs challenges.