Advancing Health Equity: Addressing Social Needs by Leveraging Resources from Northwell Health System to the Community
<p id="p2">Health inequities arise from the societal conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—commonly referred to as social determinants of health (SDoH), which include five domains: economic stability, neighborhood and built environment, education access and quality, he...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/89812 |
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| Sumario: | <p id="p2">Health inequities arise from the societal conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—commonly referred to as social determinants of health (SDoH), which include five domains: economic stability, neighborhood and built environment, education access and quality, healthcare access and quality, and community and social context. Collectively, SDoH accounts for 80% of an individual’s health. To mitigate these SDoH and advance health for all, we embarked on the Wicked Problem Impact Project, <em><italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">SHELTER: Strengthening Health through Housing Education, Linkages & Training to Empower Residents</italic></em>. Project aims included (1) improve patient access and utilization of healthcare by addressing adverse SDoH, specifically housing insecurity, (2) enhance the training of our interprofessional healthcare team to better understand what SDOH are and ways to screen and address them, and (3) strengthen our community programs and partnerships to collaboratively address SDoH upstream in two priority communities (Jamaica and Hempstead). The initial Clinical Scholars team consisted of interprofessional specialists representing pharmacy, internal medicine, pediatrics, social work, and public health. Within months, the SHELTER team grew, and the work evolved, broadening its focus from housing insecurity to programs that addressed numerous SDoH. Successful outcomes include the implementation of a universal SDOH screening and navigation program, a medical-legal partnership, various food as health programs, health equity trainings, the establishment of an educational pipeline program, and a regional health equity taskforce made up of various community and faith-based organizations. Collectively, the work has resulted in many successes and the ability to scale and sustain efforts.</p> |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-85014-102-3 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.115591 |