Social determinants of health shape both children’s immediate health and their lifetime risk for disease
This large randomized clinical trial of pediatric primary and urgent care–based social determinants of health interventions found a significantly greater decrease in social needs and improvement in parent-reported child health in families in an in-person navigation intervention arm compared with the active control arm providing written resource information. These findings extend previous work documenting the associations between social adversities experienced in childhood and health outcomes, as well as on process outcomes related to social interventions.
(Gottlieb, Hessler, Long, et al, 2016, JAMA Pediatrics, E6)
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