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SDOH: What every physician needs to know about social drivers of health. Part 1: An introduction
Author(s)Richard Payerchin
Two experts discuss The Physicians Foundation and its efforts to affect the factors that affect health outside the doctor's office.
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Part 1 – The Physicians Foundation has launched a multi-year effort to research and help doctors assist patients with social drivers of health. Those are at least five factors – food security, housing stability, transportation access, utilities access, and interpersonal safety – that affect patient health outside the physicians’ office.
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