Social determinants of health start outside the clinic
What if one of the most effective health care interventions wasn’t a medical treatment at all, but a set of pots and pans?
That may sound surprising, but it captures an important lesson from New York’s Medicaid 1115 waiver, one of the country’s most ambitious efforts to address social needs as part of health care. In Staten Island, the results suggest that improving health sometimes starts far outside a doctor’s office.
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Social determinants of health start outside the clinic
