Impact of Social Needs Navigation on Utilization Among High Utilizers in a Large Integrated Health System: A Quasi-experimental Study

06.21.2019 | Health Leads

How healthcare can help heal communities and the planet

06.17.2019 | Health Leads

Over the past few decades, the world has made substantial progress on health outcomes, with large improvements in life expectancy and childhood mortality and many breakthroughs in treatments.

Clinician Experiences and Attitudes Regarding Screening for Social Determinants of Health in a Large Integrated Health System

06.01.2019 | Health Leads

Our own Artair Rodgers along with Dr. Adam Schickedanz, Dr. Courtnee Hamity, Adam Sharp, and Dr. Anna Jackson got together to explore clinician attitudes around the social determinants of health.

Addressing Unmet Basic Resource Needs as Part of Chronic Cardiometabolic Disease Management

02.01.2017 | Health Leads

Patients who received help meeting essential socioeconomic needs like food, shelter and medications saw “modest but subsequent” improvements in certain cardiovascular risk factors, including lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

Article: Understanding Variation–26 Years Later

11.10.2016 | Health Leads

IN 1931, Walter Shewhart published his landmark book Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. He asserted that his theory and methods were an innovation to the science of management and wrote: “We are sold on the idea of applying scientific principles. However, a change is coming about in the principles themselves, and this change gives us a new concept of control.”