The Health Care/Social Service Seesaw

Over the past couple of weeks, we have focused on the importance of addressing the social determinants of health – the conditions that affect health outcomes such as affordable housing, access to healthy food, education, public safety, education, and poverty. Recent data show that these social determinants affect both consumer health outcomes and health care costs – Food Insecurity And Health Outcomes, The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage & 30-Day Rehospitalization: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

There are two perspectives to this issue. First, there is the consumer-centric perspective, or . . .