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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2020

Addressing Social Determinants of Health Within Healthcare Delivery Systems: a Framework to Ground and Inform Health Outcomes.

Deborah Gurewich, Arvin Garg, Nancy R Kressin

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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106 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Deborah GurewichVA Boston Healthcare System, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Boston, MA, USA. Deborah.gurewich@va.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-9398-7646
Arvin GargBoston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Nancy R KressinVA Boston Healthcare System, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the conditions in which people live and work that shape access to essential social and economic resources. Calls for healthcare systems to intervene on unmet social needs have stimulated several large-scale initiatives across the country. Yet, such activities are underway in the absence of a unifying conceptual framework outlining the potential mechanisms by which healthcare-based unmet social need interventions can improve health outcomes. Drawing on theoretical foundations and empirical evidence about the relationship between unmet social needs and health, the authors developed the OASIS (Outcomes from Addressing SDoH in Systems) conceptual framework to map the known and hypothesized pathways by which unmet social need screening and referral interventions may impact outcomes. The OASIS framework may help guide policy makers, healthcare system leaders, clinicians, and researchers to utilize a more unified approach in their efforts to implement and evaluate unmet social need interventions and thus foster the development of an evidence base to inform healthcare systems to more effectively mitigate the consequences of unmet social needs. Adopting an overarching conceptual framework for addressing unmet social needs by healthcare systems holds promise for better achieving health equity and promoting health at the individual and population levels.

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Health EquitySocial Determinants of HealthDelivery of Health CareHumansOutcome Assessment, Health Careconceptual frameworkhealthcare deliveryhealth equitysocial determinants of health

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PMID32076989
PMCPMC7210348

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