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Social Prescribing in the U.S. and England: Emerging Interventions to Address Patients’ Social Needs

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 54; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.039

1873-2607

Hugh Alderwick, Laura M. Gottlieb, Caroline Fichtenberg, Nancy E. Adler,

Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

There is growing interest in the role of healthcare systems in addressing patients’ social needs. This is no surprise; evidence on the impact of social factors on population health is well established. People’s education, income, housing, and other social issues have a major impact on their health—a bigger impact, by most estimates, than health care.1 These social factors, in turn, shape people’s health behaviors, such as diet and physical activity, acting as the causes of the causes of disease.