Addressing Patients' Social Needs: An Emerging Business Case for Provider Investment

@inproceedings{Bachrach2014AddressingPS,
  title={Addressing Patients' Social Needs: An Emerging Business Case for Provider Investment},
  author={Deborah Bachrach},
  year={2014}
}
  • D. Bachrach
  • Published 29 May 2014
  • Medicine, Political Science
Despite growing evidence documenting the impact of social factors on health, providers have rarely addressed patients’ social needs in clinical settings. But today, changes in the health care landscape are catapulting social determinants of health from an academic topic to an on-the-ground reality for providers, with public and private payers holding providers accountable for patients’ health and health care costs and linking payments to outcomes. These new models are creating economic… 
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