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.
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.”
09.09.2016 | Health Leads
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.
11.03.2015 | Health Leads
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.
