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Next 50 Update
How can we ensure everyone has the same chance to live a long, healthy life, regardless of their race or ethnicity, how much money they earn, or where they live? Institutions that deliver and pay for health care are pursuing strategies to help patients address social needs—such as having a stable home and access to nutritious food—that profoundly influence people’s health and drive health inequities. That’s what Urban Institute experts spent months exploring with health care providers, thought leaders, and payers across the country as part of our latest
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Catalyst brief highlights both the successes and challenges of established and emerging strategies in health care to address unmet social needs that could affect health outcomes and healthy life expectancy, particularly among families with low incomes.
Health care providers and payers are exploring actions to alleviate the social problems that do the greatest harm to their clients’ health:
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systematically assessing patients’ health-related social needs
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building community resource platforms and networks that connect patients to needed services and track their progress
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providing health care-sector incentives for investments in nonmedical services that improve people’s health or save medical costs
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providing sustainable financing for cross-sector initiatives that address patients’ health-related social needs
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aligning their organizational policies and practices to reduce unmet health-related social needs and address inequities We also identified areas where today’s health care payers, plans, and providers say they need more data and evidence to help them better target their efforts and partner more effectively across sectors.
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Identify social needs with the biggest impacts on health to better target interventions and investments that improve people’s well-being, narrow disparities, and reduce costs.
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Build an evidence base of cost-effective interventions proven to address people’s health-related social needs so health care payers and providers can easily find out what works and for whom.
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Assess strategies for integrating health, social services, and other systems to better measure costs and savings over time and across sectors and to better serve patients’ health-related social needs.
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