Tending To The Social Determinants Of Health – Or Not

The issue of addressing the social determinants of health – employment and economic stability, housing, nutrition, and neighborhood context – is getting more traction. Last year, at The 2015 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute, Arthur C. Evans, Jr., Ph.D., Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAbility Services, spoke of Philadelphia’s program to address the social determinants of health (see Improving Population Health Management With Public Health Approaches). And at this year’s institute, Magellan Complete . . .