Social Determinants of Healthcare

reflect on your own personal experience or professional experience and think of ways a patients social and behavioral data collected can be used to engage them in shared decision making about treatment options , prevention or careadd this as an additional sourcehttps://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20171025.721263/full/In Capturing Social and Behavioral Domains in EHRs: Phase 1, the committee identified 17 domains that they considered to be good candidates for inclusion in EHRs. The second report, Capturing Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures in EHRs: Phase 2, pinpoints 12 measures related to 11 of the initial domains and considers the implications of incorporating them into all EHRs. The 11 domains included in this list of measures to be collected in EHRs are as follows:1 race or ethnic group2 education3 financial-resource strain4 stress5 depression6 physical activity7 tobacco use8 alcohol use9 social connection or isolation10 intimate-partner violence11 neighborhood incomeToday, healthcare professionals are refocusing on these factors, creating programs and utilizing resources that aid their patients—and it is paying off. Hospitals and payers alike are seeing financial and economic benefits when they recognize and address the social determinants of health.