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  1. Addressing Social Needs in Health Care Settings: Evidence, Challenges

    Introduction. Efforts to address social determinants of health (SDOH), long a priority for public health professionals (), have been re-energized by recent attention and investment from the healthcare sector, spurred by a range of opportunities, initiatives and incentives, including the Affordable Care Act ().This paper reviews the rich and rapidly growing body of research driving the efforts ...

  2. Health Care 2030: The Coming Transformation

    They also assess the future evolution of payment systems leading toward sustainable health, changes in provider roles, and the entrance of new nontraditional players. For more on this topic, watch Health Systems in 2030, a free NEJM Catalyst virtual event held on March 4, 2021.

  3. Underestimated Challenges for Social Care Initiatives

    U.S. health plans that aim to address members' social needs face a host of regulatory obstacles whose management requires deep engagement by institutional compliance offices. From Harvard ...

  4. Health Care's New Emphasis on Social Determinants of Health

    "Learning from Massachusetts Hospitals on Programs to Address Social Determinants of Health" by David E. Velasquez, BS, and Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH, both of Harvard Medical School, helps clarify the current landscape, showing that health care executives in that state strongly endorse the importance of addressing SDOH in their patients, and that their hospitals often use community benefit ...

  5. Addressing Social Needs in Health Care Settings: Evidence, Challenges

    There has been an explosion of interest in addressing social needs in health care settings. Some efforts, such as screening patients for social needs and connecting them to needed social services, are already in widespread practice. These and other major investments from the health care sector hint at the potential for new multisector collaborations to address social determinants of health and ...

  6. Building a better understanding of adult social care

    Focusing on health to the detriment of social care. During the pandemic, the immediate focus in many countries was on acute hospital care, with a tendency to overlook adult social care.4 This had tragic consequences for many people's lives and the wellbeing of care workers.5 6 Whereas systems were rapidly put in place to supply hospitals with extra funding and as much personal protective ...

  7. Integrated health and social care in the community: A critical

    1 INTRODUCTION. Over the past decade, an increased focus on the way that integrated health and social care (IHSC) services are delivered and a growing demand for improved service user experience have driven forward improvements in worldwide health and social care (HSC; World Health Organization, 2016a).Person-centred IHSC systems aim to follow principles of participatory care and governance ...

  8. "Current dementia care: what are the difficulties and how can we

    BMC Health Services Research is pleased to launch 'Advancing Dementia Care', an article collection focused on current dementia care inequalities and what can be done to advance care.Dementia affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide [], with numbers steadily growing.This can affect many areas in a person's life - from struggling to do the shopping and managing medication [] to ...

  9. Research ethics and collaborative research in health and social care

    Current research ethics frameworks were developed on the footprint of biomedical, experimental research and present several pitfalls when applied to non-experimental social sciences. This work explores how the normative principles underpinning policy and regulatory frameworks of research ethics and the related operational processes work in practice in the context of collaborative health and ...

  10. Health Care Utilization Following Interventions to Improve Social Well

    The reduction in inpatient and emergency care utilization could be due to an instrumental support system that may have prevented a health condition from deteriorating 73 by direct care or by encouraging patients to seek treatment earlier. 14 In addition, the support provided could also prevent or lower stress and anxiety associated with ...

  11. "For a man to go to hospital, then that would be his last option": A

    1. Introduction. Within the context of UHC (Universal Health Coverage), the goal is to ensure that no one is left behind in that people can access quality health services wherever they are in need without being financially impoverished [].This inadvertently means that the health systems within which communities seek care are responsive to their needs, are well financed, well managed, and ...

  12. Health & Social Care in the Community

    Announcement. Wiley are pleased to announce Professor Helen Skouteris as the new Editor-in-Chief of Health and Social Care in the Community, as of January 1 st 2022. Helen is the Monash Warwick Alliance Joint Professor of Health and Social Care Improvement and Implementation Science, Head of the Health and Social Care Unit, and Co-Lead of the Division of Evidence Synthesis, Qualitative and ...

  13. research@BSPH

    Systematic and rigorous inquiry allows us to discover the fundamental mechanisms and causes of disease and disparities. At our Office of Research (research@BSPH), we translate that knowledge to develop, evaluate, and disseminate treatment and prevention strategies and inform public health practice.Research along this entire spectrum represents a fundamental mission of the Johns Hopkins ...

  14. Research

    Health research entails systematic collection or analysis of data with the intent to develop generalizable knowledge to understand health challenges and mount an improved response to them. The full spectrum of health research spans five generic areas of activity: measuring the health problem; understanding its cause(s); elaborating solutions; translating the solutions or evidence into policy ...

  15. Browse all our research projects by topic

    Browse all our research projects by topic We have funded more than 150 external research projects across a range of themes over the last five years. Browse all our research projects by topic. Copy link. Please click below to see the research projects we've funded on the following topics.

  16. National Institute for Health and Care Research

    Journals, publications and data. Explore NIHR-supported research projects, their findings and data from our range of resources: Sign up for news, announcements, events and more. The nation's largest funder of health and care research, providing the people, facilities and technology for research to thrive.

  17. Gaps in the evidence on improving social care outcomes: findings from a

    The current dearth of experimental evidence on the effectiveness of social care interventions makes clear that while the need for evidence-informed social care has long been recognised (MacDonald 2003), there is still a need to push this agenda further in terms of ensuring that complex social care interventions are subjected to rigorous ...

  18. The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We Still

    Oral health: Approximately one in seven people were unable to get or delayed getting needed dental care due to cost in 2019, a rate far higher than the percentage of people unable to get or get needed medical care due to cost. The data also indicate that access to oral healthcare and outcomes has improved for children, not adults.

  19. Maximising the benefits of research: Guidance for integrated care systems

    Annex 2 - Public health and social care research. Public health research investigates issues that impact at a population rather than an individual level. This can be done within the NHS with system-level studies, such as secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and examining the impact on health inequalities of changes to the NHS ...

  20. Redesigning health care: Integrating social care into a safety net

    This insight is relevant to safety net health systems across the U.S. contemplating a greater role in social care for individuals living with high need as well as for their families and neighbors ...

  21. PDF 1 The Role of Research in the Health and Social Care Professions

    1The Role of Research in the Health and Social Care Professions. Learning Outcomes. On completion of this chapter the reader should be able to: • understand the development of research in the health and social care professions • appreciate the need to become 'research literate' • identify the major factors that contribute to debates ...

  22. Funding & Grants

    Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care. Data. Data Infographics; Data Visualizations ... AHRQ welcomes inquiries regarding the Agency's current areas of research interest. ... intramural and extramural predoctoral and postdoctoral educational and career development grants and opportunities in health services research ...

  23. UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research

    Last updated on 6 Sep 2023. This policy framework sets out principles of good practice in the management and conduct of health and social care research in the UK. These principles protect and promote the interests of patients, service users and the public in health and social care research, by describing ethical conduct and proportionate ...

  24. Health and Social Care

    Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like What are the four main purposes of research in health and social care?, What is research?, Name the issues for research and more. ... Enquiries into Current Research in Health and Social Care Key words and definitions. 71 terms. mini280302. Preview. Homeostasis . 25 terms ...

  25. College students shrug at nationwide campus protests

    It landed behind health care reform, racial justice and civil rights, economic fairness and opportunity, education funding and access, and climate change. What they found: The survey found that three times as many college students blame Hamas for the current situation in Gaza than they do President Biden. Some 34% blame Hamas, ...

  26. What are the experiences of nurses delivering research studies in

    Introduction. Primary care research increases opportunities for the general patient population to access studies and plays an important role in providing evidence to support improvements in patient care (Hyland and Clarke Moloney, 2016).In the United Kingdom, primary care research is mainly delivered in general practice but can include other primary care providers such as pharmacies and dental ...