Screening and Interventions for Social Risk Factors

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Social conditions and the structural forces that shape them underlie preventable disparities in many health outcomes. In 2018, there were an estimated 38.1 million people living in poverty in the US,1 and an estimated 1.42 million people experienced sheltered homelessness in 2016.2 Identifying and addressing patients’ experiences of socioeconomic adversity is increasingly the focus of many national health system efforts.3 However, evidence-based guidance is limited on how clinicians should screen for social risk factors and whether health care–initiated interventions related to these risk factors improve health outcomes.

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