Integrating Health Care and Social Services for People with Serious Illness: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, et al.

A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Researchers and policymakers in the United States have spent decades exploring and discussing approaches to integrating health care and social services. While no nation has a truly integrated system, many other industrialized nations invest more heavily in social services than the United States, and are more effective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309488168
• ISBN13: 9780309488167
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"